Gasparilla 2016 Quotes & Sayings

This idea began to emerge during the Scientific Revolution, through that era's hallmark development, the scientific method. — Kathryn Schulz

When your parents die, Alessandro, you feel that you have betrayed them."
"Why?" Luciana asked.
"Because you come to love your children more. I lost my mother and father to images in photographs and handwriting on letters, and as I abandoned them for you, the saddest thing was that they made no protest.
"Even now that I'm going back to them, I regret above all that I must leave you."
"You're not going back to anybody," Alessandro told him. "We'll solve those problems later."
"Alessandro," his father said, almost cheerfully. "You don't understand. This kind of problem is very special: it has no solution. — Mark Helprin

Time and progress are two long-lost relatives who send an occasional letter. — Aline Ohanesian

Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because
despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content
these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own. — Bruno Bettelheim

How can non-existence get sick of itself?
Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don't even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our world are the same thing. — Victor Pelevin

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of. — Nalo Hopkinson

Damn. Not even joined yet and you're already using the headache excuse. — Jacquelyn Frank

Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes. — Coco Rocha

I make my shroud, but no one knows
So shimmering fine it is and fair,
With stitches set in even rows,
I make my shroud, but no one knows.
In door-way where the lilac blows,
Humming a little wandering air,
I make my shroud and no one knows,
So shimmering fine it is and fair. — Adelaide Crapsey

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care. — Bjork

Furious defiance burned under his skin. — Nalini Singh

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. — Oliver Goldsmith

I've always found it better to face lies than turn from them — Jonathan Renshaw

When you stop comparing yourself with others, you begin respecting your own uniqueness. — Vishwas Chavan

Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you. — Anne Hutchinson