Hermanitas Vivanco Quotes & Sayings

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. — Douglas Coupland

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me. — Charles Yu

Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past. — Ally Carter

Being burned out is a lot better than having no fire in the fist place. — Scott Ginsberg

Make bold moves toward your dreams each day, refuse to stop and nothing can stop you. — Hal Elrod

Because loneliness can kill you. And even if it doesn't kill you physically - which it certainly can, disease of the psyche often leads to disease of the flesh - it can kill your soul. — J.T. Geissinger

I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness, — Karl Lagerfeld

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea. — Isabel Paterson

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery.
He admired his own defiance.
And then, reader, he fainted. — Kate DiCamillo

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion. — Sri Aurobindo

She longed for a letter that was for her and her alone, a letter which would give her some glimpse into his heart. — Daisy Goodwin

When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair. — Tamsin Greig

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit. — Andre Dubus

Wedding song (reprise)
But you and I, through burning plains,
through darkness of the earth,
affirm the world, its people,
the heavens that gave them birth,
the breath that passes between us,
this new home where we stand,
and all those things made larger by
the vows between woman and man. — Margaret Weis

Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact ... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall ... So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library. Research. Reading. — Jeffrey Boam