Juan Ponce De Leon Direct Quotes & Sayings

My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous."
"Men like that always are. — Ray Bradbury

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. — Gerald Brenan

Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance. — Ivor Brown

And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution. — Constantine P. Cavafy

Kell had told his brother about the deals he struck in Grey London, and in White, and even on occasion in Red, about the various things he'd smuggled, and Rhy had stared at him, and listened, and when he spoke, it wasn't to lecture Kell on all the ways it was wrong, or illegal. It was to ask why.
"I don't know," said Kell, and it had been the truth.
Rhy had sat up, eyes bleary from drink. "Have we not provided?" he'd asked, visibly upset. "Is there anything you want for?"
"No," Kell had answered, and that had been a truth and a lie at the same time.
"Are you not loved?" whispered Rhy. "Are you not welcomed as family?"
"But I'm not family, Rhy," Kell had said. "I'm not truly a Maresh, for all that the king and queen have offered me that name. I feel more like a possession than a prince."
At that, Rhy had punched him in the face.
For a week after, Kell had two black eyes instead of one, and he'd never spoken like that again, but the damage was done. — Victoria Schwab

And thus I wonder about so many gay men I've met since, pillars of the community, out to everyone else but Mom, who still refer to their lovers as something between a roommate and a valet. Just who is being protected here, and who thinks queer is wrong? — Paul Monette

Maybe he got tired of waiting and he'd gone without me though I doubted that was the case and decided he was probably doing something Max-ish. Chopping wood. Building a barn. Saving a child in distress or climbing a tree to rescue a cat. Stuff like that. — Kristen Ashley

Celebrate yourself. Follow your passions and eccentricities, because they are yours alone. You are unique! If everyone did that, I'm pretty sure there would be world peace. — Kandyse McClure

Why are you looking at me like that?" Emelia's plump lips quirked.
"Like what?"
"Like you want to eat me. — Kristin Miller

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life — Marilyn Manson

I loved him and he allowed it — Carrie Fisher

All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs. — Russell Banks

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured. — Randy Pausch

I've wept enough in my life. I have no tears left. — Melina Marchetta

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like. — Brad Paisley