Manrique Larduet Quotes & Sayings

It's not disgusting. Books are disgusting."
"I like books. I thought you liked books."
"Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. — Hannah Moskowitz

So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused. — Prince

He's worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it. — Simon Mignolet

Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I sit here before my computer, Amiguita, my altar on top of the monitor with the Virgen de Coatlalopeuh candle and copal incense burning. My companion, a wooden serpent staff with feathers, is to my right while I ponder the ways metaphor and symbol concretize the spirit and etherealize the body. The Writing is my whole life, it is my obsession. This vampire which is my talent does not suffer other suitors. Daily I court it, offer my neck to its teeth. This is the sacrifice that the act of creation requires, a blood sacrifice. For only through the body, through the pulling of flesh, can the human soul be transformed. And for images, words, stories to have this transformative power, they must arise from the human body
flesh and bone
and from the Earth's body
stone, sky, liquid, soil. This work, these images, piercing tongue or ear lobes with cactus needle, are my offerings, are my Aztecan blood sacrifices. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

Liar; But never doubt I love ... I love thee best, O most best believe it. — Amy A. Bartol

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip. — Scott Adams

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet. — Jeremy Roenick

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Roses are red and violets are purple,
sugar is sweet and so is maple surple. — Roger Miller

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered. — David Seabury

It makes me nervous, the way the biggest things and the smallest live together day in and day out. — Deb Caletti

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. — Francine Prose

Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one. — Dennis Prager

I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers. — Iris Apfel