Granizo Gigante Quotes & Sayings

Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back. — Richard Bach

A nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. — Orhan Pamuk

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Your will to stay gives miracles a reason to show up! — Anuranjita Kumar

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. — Max Frisch

In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane. — Dogen

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness. — C.S. Lewis

He knows it is a city, but he thinks of it as a camel from whose pack hang wineskins and bags of candies fruit, date wine, tobacco leaves, and already he sees himself as the head of a long caravan taking him away from the desert of the sea, toward oases of fresh water in the palm trees' jagged shade, toward palaces of thick, whitewashed walls, tiled courts where girls are dancing barefoot, moving their arms, half-hidden by their veils, half-revealed. — Italo Calvino