Mariana Bracetti Quotes & Sayings

everywhere alone. — Walter Tevis

Our genetic endowments, coupled with many early environmental impacts, establish our childhood intelligence. An environment lacking a sufficient level of stimulation stifles our mental development. An environment with a sufficient level of stimulation enables our genetically different abilities to flower, and at the same time often sets into motion positive social and cultural pressures that reinforce our improvement. — Shlomo Breznitz

I cooked for him like a wife and washed his clothes and was a wife in other ways too terrible to mention. — Lois Lowry

It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit. — Charlie Hunnam

I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well. — Emma Donoghue

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it. — Vijay Singh

There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition. — Rem Koolhaas

One of the most powerful ways to "program" your brain is the kaizen technique of asking small questions. — Robert Maurer

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

I never gave her a mating gift, and I want to give her this today so I can put a baby in her tonight. — Shay Savage

Concern is a thin hair on the head of pity. — Lisa Genova

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas. — Christopher Atkins

But we find that war is followed by no general good whatever. The power, the glory, or the wealth of a very few may be enlarged. But the people in general, upon both sides, after all the sufferings are passed, pursue their ordinary occupations, with no difference from their former state. The evils therefore of war ... are a mere loss without any advantage ... — James Boswell

I'd met people in my life who were pure poison. I had learnt to know the look of them - the way their smiles came and went and never touched their eyes, those eyes that could be so intense at times and yet revealed no soul. Such people might look normal, but inside it was as though some vital part of them was missing, and whenever I saw eyes like that I'd learnt to turn and run and guard my back while I was leaving. — Susanna Kearsley