Gustador Quotes & Sayings

Find your school satyr and get his help. You need to make it to Camp Half-Blood right away. — Rick Riordan

What if - poring through Graham's bank in some future era - the selected "genius specimens" were found to possess the very genes that, in alternative situations, might be identified as disease enabling (or vice versa: What if "disease-causing" gene variants were also genius enabling?)? — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day
the light of day, faint in her windowless room. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors. — Jim Shepard

My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders. — Ronaldinho

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad. — Dwight Gooden

A river cannot boast to a sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

That the clematis are climbing the wall — Julie Klassen

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind. — Mark Nepo

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day. — Emily Procter

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work. — Parker J. Palmer

No realm was too petty: The Ministry of Posts ruled that henceforth when trying to spell a word over the telephone a caller could no longer say "D as in David," because "David" was a Jewish name. The caller had to use "Dora." "Samuel" became "Siegfried." And so forth. "There has been nothing in social history more implacable, more heartless and more devastating than the present policy in Germany against the Jews," Consul General Messersmith told Undersecretary Phillips in a long letter dated September 29, 1933. He wrote, "It is definitely the aim of the Government, no matter what it may say to the outside or in Germany, to eliminate the Jews from German life. — Erik Larson