Hortelanos Quotes & Sayings

William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book, The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It's a crowning achievement of his own storied career. — Pat Conroy

But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn't a bad thing, you decide, for you spend your days in the thrall of breathless anticipation, agitated and alert, counting the hours until you can see her and hold her again. Intense. That is the word you use to describe yourself now. You are intense. Your feelings are intense. Your life has become increasingly intense. — Paul Auster

Once a child gets into your heart, there's no right or wrong about it. — M.L. Stedman

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life. — P.G. Wodehouse

Love ... requires that you learn to read the lover in her own language, not translate her into yours. — Steven Heighton

Who says that? Who the hell uses the word ravishing? Douchebags - that's who. — Emma Chase

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man. — Samuel Richardson

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel. — Ed Markey

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice ... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information. — Yuri Milner

The dark wave had receded, but he knew it wasn't gone, just a monster in waiting, lurking for another opportunity. For the moment it was tamed by the presence of this woman. This was no longer only a game or lighthearted adventure. This was war, and it seemed that the battlefield was in his own heart and mind; something old and hurt was in conflict with something that was beginning to emerge. — Wm. Paul Young

Peace has its price: your head and heart; less than that is war. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi