Fundacion Telefonica Quotes & Sayings

There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires
I am so afraid of what comes next — Laura Wiess

What proportion of the peasantry was well off and what poor is judged by what they bequeathed, and since the poorest had nothing to leave, they remain mute. For no other class is that famous goal of the historian, wie es wirklich war (how it really was), so elusive. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Something looked through my grandfather's eyes. It said Being an accountant, it's not the end of the world.
Something looked at my Uncle Danny. Something looked at my aunts and it said A secretary, is that so terrible?
Linda had seen four before her do something that was not so terrible and already there was something about them, their whole lives ahead of them and the best thing cut off, as if something that might have been a Heifetz had been walled up inside an accountant and left to die.
Doom. Doom. Doom. — Helen DeWitt

Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks. — Maggie Stiefvater

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. — Booker T. Washington

But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off. — Jennifer Saunders

Why hadn't she just said yes? Then she could have driven alone back to the city [ ... ] and picked up some guy and brought him back home and screwed him and kicked him out and then picked up her daughter at the train the next day like a spy or a con artist, as if the two sides of herself didn't even care to know each other. But it was too late for that. Not just in terms of her ever becoming the kind of woman who knew how to do that kind of thing, without exposing herself as deluded or pathetic or ridiculous. — Jonathan Dee

If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to? — E.C. Myers

The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead. — Margaret Mead

You can't argue with stupidity. — Jermaine Jackson

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him. — Robert Carlyle

He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first stop of finding it, which is knowing what it is. — David Levithan

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history? — Perry Marshall

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse. — Salman Rushdie

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity! — Gabrielle Reece