Hablemos Quotes & Sayings

The rivers rose, and, when they receded, sucked more of the fertile soil back down with them, to run down the Pedernales to the Colorado, down the Colorado to the Gulf. And — Robert A. Caro

War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. It's ugly, and you don't even want to look at it let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice, once you know. Once you really know. — Laini Taylor

You were a stone wall, a fort in high,
unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach. — Deb Caletti

The sensation reminds him of the first snow of winter, for those first few hours when everything is blanketed in white, soft and quiet. — Erin Morgenstern

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique. — Rod Serling

Governments don't produce economic growth people do. — Ronald Reagan

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. — Hannah Arendt

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money. — Dorothy Fields

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same. — Bell Hooks

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book. — PJ Harvey

I have come to feel that the essence of life is not what it so often seems to be - working to have, working to get, working to possess. It's about becoming. It's about what's happening inside us. — Mary Ellen Edmunds

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service. — Mahatma Gandhi