Guias Turisticos Quotes & Sayings

Language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes 'one's owns' only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a natural and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Content is not mere facts, drummed into tender little minds under the relentless pounding of rote learning. Content--even the date of the Quebec Act, Confederation, or the Battle of Vimy Ridge, or the name of the first prime minister-- is cultural capital, a basic requirement of life that every Canadian needs to comprehend the daily newspaper, to watch the TV news or a documentary, or to argue about politics and cast a reasonably informed vote. In an increasingly complex and immediate world, cultural capital must also include some knowledge of Europe, Africa, and Asia, too. — J.L. Granatstein

People should be suspicious if every decision was unanimous. — Don Iveson

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core — Cecelia Ahern

Finding love is like making creme brulee. It may take a few tries before you get it right. — Crystal Woods

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music. — Lester Bowie

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world. — Deborah Moggach

Her heartbeat began to pound faster. Thirteen's eyes were sweeping over her body. A slow, deliberate glance. "Can he - can he see through the mirror?" His gaze felt like a hot touch on her skin.
"Of course not" was Dr. Wyatt's instant response. The doc sounded annoyed with her.
Her shoulders relaxed.
Subject Thirteen smiled.
Damn. — Cynthia Eden

Tis only in the future you can prove your true worth. — Emmuska Orczy

Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart. — Katherine Applegate

It was, come to think of it, the first time anyone had thought to try strangling him. Manuel found it to be disappointingly effective.
— Nathan Crowder

We took a bus to Victoria, then passed on foot into a vast, desolate region of stucco streets and squares upon which a doom seemed to have fallen. The gloom was cosmic. — Anthony Powell