Maria Claudia Borras Quotes & Sayings

At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion." — Tom Hardy

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. — Howard Hodgkin

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. — Henry Home

Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone. — Tony Dungy

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. — P. J. O'Rourke

After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world. — Michael Bond

Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people." — Vince Staples

Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I? — George Clooney

The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self. — Mooji

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence. — Dean Koontz

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else ... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else. — Rajneesh

The worker does not produce himself; he produces an independent power. The success of this production, its abundance, returns to the producer as an abundance of dispossession. All the time and space of his world become foreign to him with the accumulation of his alienated products. The spectacle is the map of this new world, a map which exactly covers its territory. The very powers which escaped us show themselves to us in all their force. — Guy Debord

Tas had been teasing Flint unmercifully all morning, calling him "Seamaster" and "Shipmate" asking him the price of fish, and how much he would charge to Ferry them back across the lake. Flint finally threw a rock at him, and Tennis sent ass down to the lake to scrub out the pans. — Margaret Weis

[T]hose most precious memories are hidden in the safest place of all. Safe from fire or floods or war. In stories. Stories remembered, until they are ready to be told. Or perhaps simply ready to be heard. — Aminatta Forna