Matesevo Quotes & Sayings

It is a sin to think words no others think — Ayn Rand

An Autobiography is the truest of all books,for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell (though I didn't use that figure)
the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences. — Mark Twain

Nobody knows the ages of any of the living giant coast redwoods, because nobody has ever drilled into one of them in order to count its annual growth rings. Drilling into an old redwood would not reveal its age, anyway, because the oldest redwoods seem to be hollow; they don't have growth rings left in their centers to be counted. Botanists suspect that the oldest living redwoods may be somewhere between two thousand and three thousand years old-they seem to be roughly the age of the Parthenon. — Richard Preston

It breached over my nose and became the shape of The Phantom of the Opera mask underneath my skin — David Krochmal

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see. — Rudyard Kipling

eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested. — Jeffery Deaver

When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard. — Rib Hillis

I just want to keep pushing things and growing, and we'll see what happens. — Nick Jonas

I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun. — Jenny McCarthy

We cannot say much about love at first sight. It happens, and we live in the wake of a new life. — Rumi

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself , either in your first or second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. — W.G. Sebald