Marasco Ranch Quotes & Sayings

And when you fall, because you always do fall. When you swim for the beach to catch your board. There's peace to be found in the shoreward pull with every passing wave. — Michael Davidow

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss. — Quentin Blake

I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it. — Connie Nielsen

Maybe some people may have thought or imagined that Islam drains all creativity. In fact, when you look at history, you discover that the golden age of Spain is what actually produced what we call the guitar. — Cat Stevens

In the preshent human condition, pain is unavoidable. As long as you inhabit a physical body, you have to experience pain from time to time. Suffering is of a different nature. It is a reaction of the manas/mind that magnifies the pain and adds various emotional frills and thrills to it. In many cases, pain is only transient; but if one wishes, one can always add to it and suffer more - there is no limit. — Samuel Sagan

I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse. — Lilith Saintcrow

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. — Steven Spielberg

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance

Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life). — Edmund White

Carmel. 1SA25.8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew — Anonymous

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films. — Hassan Blasim

You couldn't live close to war and not have it grab you eventually. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Kids don't like what they don't understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn't speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in. — Ronda Rousey

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others. — Ben Sollee

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years. — Aleksandr Lebed