Lizandro Macarulla Quotes & Sayings

Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity. — Daniel Woodrell

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability. — Kenny Smith

I had to put the word out to people that I didn't cost a fortune, and I was prepared to work at home. Because that's the assumption: "Well, he lives in America now, we can't afford him, we won't bother." — Guy Pearce

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. — Charles Kuralt

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. — Sivananda Saraswati

Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. — Margaret Wise Brown

Instincts are experiments. Data is proof. — Anonymous

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world - to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! — Maeve Binchy

Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened. — Markus Zusak

Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant — Louis D. Brandeis

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen? — Maggie O'Farrell

How long were you supposed to mourn, and what did they say? Make your life a tribute to the loved one. — Margaret Atwood

When we understand the privilege of what it means to be an athlete, we are in touch with, and rejoice in, our physical, mental, and emotional strengths and our endless possibilities. — Gloria Averbuch