Manlio Sgalambro Quotes & Sayings

Oedipa resolved to pull in at the next motel she saw, however ugly, stillness and four walls having at some point become preferable to this illusion of speed, freedom, wind in your hair, unreeling landscape - it wasn't. What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from pain, or whatever passes, with a city, for pain. But were Oedipa some single melted crystal of urban horse, L.A., really, would be no less turned on for her absence. — Thomas Pynchon

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. — Henry Ward Beecher

...shades of OCD. — Susan Kaye Quinn

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much. — Barbara Bush

It watched the strangers with not-eyes. A dead view of the world created by memory and lifeglow. — J. Cameron McClain

Is the sky cloudy? Can't you see the shining stars? Take a look at the eyes of a happy child, you will see all the bright stars over there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Colors are forces, radiant energies that affect us positively or negatively, whether we are aware of it or not. — Johannes Itten

My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better. — Lea Thompson

You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps. — Sam Harris

We don't do spells," she said. She sounded a little disappointed to admit it. "We'll do recipes sometimes. But no spells or cantrips. Gran doesn't hold with none of that. She says it's common. — Neil Gaiman