Los Recoditos Quotes & Sayings

We no need to be a knight for to live in a castle and fight for a better life. — Jan Jansen

There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right
all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it. — William Souder

But you mustn't be too sane, darlings. It really won't do in this family. — Angus Wilson

Lisa's head was tilted back and she was staring at the wall with her mouth open. "It's . . . beautiful," she whispered, touching a slender hand to her breasts.
"It's graffiti," Rigg said flatly.
Lisa shook her head in awe. "And it's beautiful."
Rigg peered up at the wall. "Huh? — Ash Gray

You're so pretty when you're a mess. — Kiera Cass

Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes. — Alber Elbaz

He was really, Lily Briscoe thought, in spite of his eyes, but then look at his nose, look at his hands, the most uncharming human being she had ever met. Then why did she mind what he said? Women can't write, women can't paint - what did that matter coming from him, since clearly it was not true to him but for some reason helpful to him, and that was why he said it? Why did her whole being bow, like corn under a wind, and erect itself again from this abasement only with a great and rather painful effort? She must make it once more. There's the sprig on the table-cloth; there's my painting; I must move the tree to the middle; that matters - nothing else. Could she not hold fast to that, she asked herself, and not lose her temper, and not argue; and if she wanted revenge take it by laughing at him? — Virginia Woolf

There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house. — Ryan Reynolds

Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big. — John Madden

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach. — Greg Iles

Though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless ... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit and, careless of the cost, it tries a second tack. Either it looks at things visible and makes of these a god - a gross mistake, for what visible thing is more sublime, more godlike, than its observer ... - or else it discovers God through the beauty and order of things seen, using sight as a guide to what transcends sight without losing God through the grandeur of what it sees. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected. That — Sabahattin Ali

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. — Herbert Spencer

Why spend money and blood to invade a country and plunder its treasure when you can just buy it from them at less expense and sell them some of your own? — Steven Pinker

The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is. — Robert Krulwich