Goncalo Alves Quotes & Sayings

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. — Rose Tremain

There's nothing to forgive ... We fell in love: it's not a crime. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

(About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of a holistic approach. We want to become better decathletes and better competitors. I think for us that means just toeing the line at whatever it is we're doing that day and being confident in preparing as best as we can. Later in the year, late in the season when we have all of the thousands of reps under our belt, we can try to maybe focus on one or two things and leave some stuff off one week. Really, we like to keep everything inside the routine and part of the process. — Trey Hardee

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. — Gaylord Perry

Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve. — P.G. Wodehouse

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking. — Laurie Halse Anderson

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden. — Van Morrison

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. — David Hume

...and justice itself became a commodity, mutable in imbalance. Truth was lost, a chimera reshaped to match agenda, prejudices, thus cosigning the entire political process to a mummer's charade of false indignation, hypocritical posturing and a perverse contempt for the commonry. Once subsumed, ideals and the honor created by their avowal can never be regained, except by outright, unconstrained rejection, invariably instigated by the commonry, at the juncture of one particular moment of such brazen injustice that revolution becomes the only reasonable response. — Steven Erikson