Machucarse Quotes & Sayings

There's an ad for every vice. That's advice. — Brian Spellman

Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. — Mary Shelley

The map is not the territory, but you can't fold up the territory and put it in the glove compartment. — Arthur D. Hlavaty

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them. — William Fitzsimmons

When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage. — Yukio Mishima

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath

Noa Sparrow has never been much liked by people and she doesn't much care. That isn't strictly true, of course. — Menna Van Praag

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. — Theodore Roosevelt

In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for them by the State, or at least to do nothing for themselves without asking from the State not only leave to do it, but even how it is to be done, naturally hold the State responsible for all evil which befalls them, and when the evil exceeds their amount of patience, they rise against the government and make what is called a revolution; whereupon somebody else, with or without legitimate authority from the nation, vaults into the seat, issues his orders to the bureaucracy, and everything goes on much as it did before; the bureaucracy being unchanged, and nobody else being capable of taking their place. A very different spectacle is exhibited among a people accustomed to transact their own business. In France, a large part of the people — John Stuart Mill

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind. — G.K. Chesterton

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Your father is fearless," Catelyn pointed out. "He is brave, but that is very different. — George R R Martin

The pain in my hip was just short of apocalyptic. And the first five hundred words were uniquely terrifying - it was as if I'd never written anything before them in my life. All my old tricks seemed to have deserted me. I stepped from one word to the next like a very old man finding his way across a stream on a zigzag line of wet stones. There was no inspiration that first afternoon, only a kind of stubborn determination and the hope that things would get better if I kept at it. — Stephen King

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. — Jack Kerouac