Lydia Cabrera Quotes & Sayings

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer. — John Searle

Dan Lynch was chuckling, his hand around his small glass. 'I remember Billy saying that AA was a Protestant thing when you came right down to it. Started by a bunch of Protestants. He said he didn't like the chummy way some of them were always calling Our Lord by his first name. I drove him to the first meeting and waited to take him home, 'cause Maeve didn't want him driving, and when he came out he said you could tell who the Catholics were because they'd all been bowing their heads every ten seconds while the Protestants bantered on about Jesus, Jesus Jesus.'
(And sure enough, up and down our stretch of table, heads bobbed at the name.) — Alice McDermott

You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much."
-Acheron — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger ... — Billy Graham

The sky is different here. I can count the stars we see upon my fingers. And as I sit beside my friends, I know I'll not be cast aside unseen. — Fox Benwell

A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude. — Michelle Franklin

I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others. — Leonard Read

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys. — David Copperfield

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction. — Umberto Eco

Poetry is the disease of the brain. — Alfred De Vigny

Snakes can have dozens of young at a time, and so they are often symbols of fertility. They resemble vegetation, especially roots, in their form and often in the green and brown of their skins. The undulating form of a snake also suggests a river. A point of muscular tension passes through the body of a snake and drives the animal forward, like a moment moving along a continuum of days and years. Like time itself, a snake seems to progress while remaining still. In addition, the body of a snake also resembles those marks with a stylus, brush, or pen that make up our letters. Ornamental alphabets of the ancient Celts and others were often made up of intertwined serpents. It could even be that the tracks of a snake in sand helped to inspire the invention of the alphabet. The manner in which snakes curl up in a ball has made people associate them with the sun. — Boria Sax

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. — Jim Fowler

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. — Stanley Wolpert

The revolver was black and nearly new. I was afraid to even touch it, for in it lay all the whole difference between what I was and what I was going to be. — Elie Wiesel

But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell. — Josh Billings