Markopoulos Award Quotes & Sayings

We should take her with us."
Cinder glared. "Are you crazy?"
"Crazy in love. She's gorgeous."
"You're an idiot. Help me carry her to the living room. — Marissa Meyer

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.' — Kamala Harris

I am the biographer of my own life. And no one can take that away from me. — Krista Ritchie

I looked at the actors with whom I'd grown so familiar over the last few months: Scott Holmes (who was playing Mike - and who was eventually credited as "Mike Holmes" because Tommy forgot his real name), — Greg Sestero

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll. — John Mellencamp

Long voyages often lose themselves.
Mam?
You will see. It is difficult even for brothers to travel together on such a voyage. The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all. Listen to the corridos of the country. They will tell you. Then you will see in your own life what is the cost of things. Perhaps it is true that nothing is hidden. Yet many do not wish to see what lies before them in plain sight. You will see. The shape of the road is the road. There is not some other road that wears the shape but only the one. And every voyage begun upon it will be completed. Whether horses are found or not. — Cormac McCarthy

I'm not sure how it is in America, but for what I can say about Germany, most people give their information willingly to anyone who asks for it such as companies like Google. We just don't question it anymore. — Christian Schwochow

Once, a great handful of a girl out west told him - I never did love you. [ ... ]How mean of her to salve her spit curled conscience by trying to take away their past! In the kitchen he had started to use those very words on Lou - they sprang readily to mind, as wounding words do - but he stopped himself. — Annie Dillard

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me. — Nicholas Ozeki

The angry lesbian stereotype is true - Im one of them - but underneath that there is fun and frolic and we need to show that a little bit more now. — Jill Bennett

One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds. — J. E. H. MacDonald

We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly. — Richard Reti

By creating a new mythos - that is, a change in the way we perceive reality, the way we see ourselves, and the ways we behave - la mestiza creates a new consciousness. The work of mestiza consciousness is to break down the subject/object duality that keeps her prisoner and to show in the flesh and through the images in her work how duality is transcended. The answer to the problem between the white race and the colored, between males and females, lies in healing the split that originates in the very foundation of our lives, our culture, our languages, our thoughts. A massive uprooting of dualistic thinking in the individual and collective consciousness is the beginning of a long struggle, but one that could, in our best hopes, bring us to the end of rape, of violence, of war. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

Now to reach the point where one evolved technological monkey is typing these words on a keyboard and hoping another evolved technological monkey is bored enough to read them, has taken about 4.34 billion years of planetary evolution. — Steve Merrick

Death is the future of everyone, but he who detests death is a failure in life, but he who admonishes it is an achiever — Michael Bassey Johnson