La Viejita Margara Quotes & Sayings

I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live in, and how you think. I found it quite natural to think as a male because I actually think that as a female, one often thinks in the mind of a male in terms of eroticism. You think about what the other person feels. So it's not that hard to imagine being that person. — Rebecca Miller

WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, It's the Squirrel, you don't ask questions. — Rick Riordan

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess.
- Ch. 5 — Amy Tan

How can we be sure of anything
the tide changes.
The wind that made the grain wave gently yesterday
blows down the tress tomorrow.
And the sea sends sailors crashing on the rocks,
as easily as it guides them safely home.
I love the sea
but it doesn't make me less afraid of it
I love you
but I'm not always sure of what you are
and how you feel. — Rod McKuen

Make your life a magical journey of Life, encountering Life. — Donald L. Hicks

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it. — Eric Braeden

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. — Richard Feynman

Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we're looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world. — Laura Bush

I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried. — Walt Mossberg

Catholic sex is twenty minutes of pleading and whining (Vatican-approved foreplay), thirty seconds of involuntary shuddering and an hour of apologizing to God. — Lionel Fisher

True friends are the ones who will tell you when you are being a jerk or worse and still hang out with you. — Darrin Wiggins

And rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known. — Irving Stone

Blech! Smells like Chewbacca's burned butt hair. Where the hell am I? — Julie Ann Walker

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present. — George Saunders

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing. — Kathleen Hanna