Locanto Manila Quotes & Sayings

In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working. — Michael Bond

Determination goes a long way when pursuing dreams. — Mary Sage Nguyen

What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination — Allen Ginsberg

And right then it felt like I finally understood where everything was, eternity, the heart , the soul. It was like I was sharing every experience I'd ever had in my past 13 years. And then, the next moment, I became unbearably sad. I didn't know what to do with these feeling. Her warmth, her soul. How was I supposed to treat them? That, I did not know. Then right then, I clearly understood that we would never be together. Our lives not yet fully realized, the vast expanse of time. They lay before us and there was nothing we could do. But then, all my worries, all my doubt, started melting away. All that was left were Akari's soft lips on mine. — Makoto Shinkai

Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance. — Denise Levertov

My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working! — Alex Hirsch

We're not hard people. — Cheryl James

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine. — Terry Goodkind

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial. — Dick Cavett

She turned for her kitchen, mentally revising her planned family dinner to include a Vor lord from the Imperial capital. White wine? Her limited experience of the breed suggested that if you could get them sufficiently sloshed, it wouldn't matter what you fed them. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet. — Walter Jon Williams

I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument. — Joanna Newsom

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. — Abraham Lincoln

the son of Olaf. The latter was a tall, — Peter Darman