Latinchat Starmedia Quotes & Sayings

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage. — Frank Herbert

So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming. — Albert Camus

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. — Tobias Smollett

The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. — L. Tom Perry

She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong. — Rainbow Rowell

There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival. — S.C. Barrus

When I am really alone some power seems to grow in me ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together. — Brenda Ueland

Beowulf stands out as a poem which makes extensive use of this kind of figurative language. There are over one thousand compounds in the poem, totalling one-third of all the words in the text. Many of these compounds are kennings. The word 'to ken' is still used in many Scottish and Northern English dialects, meaning 'to know'. Such language is a way of knowing and of expressing meanings in striking and memorable ways; it has continuities with the kinds of poetic compounding found in nearly all later poetry but especially in the Modernist texts of Gerard Manley Hopkins and James Joyce. — Ronald Carter

It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home. — Daphne Guinness

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer

My theory was that if you spent such a big portion of your life being a snob, you were not allowed to be surprised when people start wishing you dead. — Chrissy Moon

To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe. — Bill Ayers