Ishakamusa Barashango Quotes & Sayings

But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun, almost brutal in its clarity, bathing everything in pure light. Sweat trickled down his back and chest from the steamy heat, and his entire body pulsed with life. Even his fingertips throbbed. It took all of his formidable self-control to prevent himself from pushing her down on the dock and spreading her legs for his entry. — Linda Howard

She began to whisper something in my ear. It's the strangest thing about poetry - you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language. You can hear Homer's Greek without understanding a word, and you still know it's poetry. I've heard Polish poetry, and Inuit poetry, and I knew what it was without knowing. Her whisper was like that. I didn't know the language, but her words washed through me, perfect, and in my mind's eye I saw towers of glass and diamond; and people with eyes of the palest green; and, unstoppable, beneath every syllable, I could feel the relentless advance of the ocean. — Neil Gaiman

The great, like plants, do not curse storms for they are nourished by them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve in order to understand itself. The complex organization of the brain evolved as a consequence of our sensorial and muscled engagement with the landscapes that surround us. — David Abram

Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open. — David Hoffman

When I lost the use of my Eyes it was a comfort to think there were so few real books that I could easily find some one to read me all of them. — Emily Dickinson

In business, experience is the big teacher. — Matthew Stewart

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom. — B.F. Skinner

In another time, another place, I wonder who we would have been to each other. — Lauren DeStefano

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed. — Neil Patrick Harris

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden. — Marilynne Robinson

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another. — David O. Selznick

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn. — Florence Welch