Marilise Cecere Quotes & Sayings

Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself. — Phillip Mann

I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons.
But the past resists that.
It holds too much evidence of too many things. — David Levithan

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all. — Connie Willis

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. — David Letterman

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' "
"Me, too," I said. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I love you," I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move."
"Because of her?"
I nodded. — Haruki Murakami

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. — Dalai Lama XIV

And I have soldier dolls! My uncle Garrett bough them for me. — Maya Banks

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting sensless wars, dying of poverty and aids- unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale. — Ilka Chase

I try to be myself and, of course, be a good role model. I don't really find it hard, but you think about what you do and that other people look up to you. — Caroline Wozniacki

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance. — Sigmund Freud