Gringos Locos Quotes & Sayings

We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate. — Billy Graham

Leaving the criminal law on one side, what is the difference between the liability under the mill acts or statutes authorizing a taking by eminent domain and the liability for what we call a wrongful conversion of property where restoration is out of the question. In both cases the party taking another man's property has to pay its fair value as assessed by a jury, and no more. What significance is there in calling one taking right and another wrong from the point of view of the law? — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes. — Dave Eggers

To win the rat race, you have to think and behave like a cat. — Manoj Vaz

Silver eyes met hers and locked. "I didn't like Dani."
"At least you're consistent," she said coolly.
His silver eyes were ice. "I loved her. — Karen Marie Moning

K.T. stops dead in her tracks, her eyes locked on Horace's car.
"Holy crap," she mutters, eyes wide. "Is that a '69 Camaro SS?"
I glance back at her as I unlock the door. "Yeah. You know cars?"
She shakes her head, her lips trembling. "Just this one."
Her reaction is too strong to be normal. People don't usually get choked up at the sight of a car. There's something about this car specifically that freaks her out.
It takes a second for her to smile, but she forces the expression onto her face. "It's my sister's favorite car. — Erica Cameron

Her lids tremble and her eyeballs look like they might disappear into her head. — Rebecca Stead

She sounds... cruel."
"There were many sides to Grace," Fiske said.
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Beatrice leaned closer to the screen. "Grace made her own husband, Nathaniel Harford, an Outcast. — Jude Watson

Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my recollection, I became a reader at the age of 10 and have never stopped. Like many authors, I read all sorts of books all the time, and it is amazing how the mind fills up. — Terry Pratchett

The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind. — Khalil Gibran

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. — Zane Grey

It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a polar bear is one of the few animals that will stalk a human. If you go to where polar bears live, it might stalk you and when you're on the plane going home, it might be behind you reading. — Craig Ferguson

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you. — Robert McChesney

Never let a temporary problem cause you to make a permanent wrong decision. — Michelle Word Hollis