Meninas Quotes & Sayings

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice — Charlie Chaplin

I'VE FULFILLED MY end of the bargain, Archangel," says the Pit lord. His burned wings sweep back and forth lazily in the air. "I saved your pitiful Daughter of Man and her family. Now it's your turn." Raffe hovers on his beautiful feathered wings in front of the Pit lord. He nods with a grim expression. "No." The word slips out of my mouth as — Susan Ee

There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so. — Flannery O'Connor

I'd learned very quickly that I could create a fair amount of chaos with very little effort. Some defense lawyers call it "making the State come off their mountain to fight on my molehill." I just called it fun. — Scott Pratt

I want him to feel what I felt every time he cut my heart with the knife of betrayal. — Jill Thrussell

Watch out for men who love something more than themselves or you. Their passion can be your prison. — Gwendolyn Heasley

Your body is nothing but a money machine." That's what Uncle Rudy says. "That's the way it is. We're all just prostitutes. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all. — Ryan Murphy

Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones. — Kyrie Irving

Never do anything that is unpleasant to others. — Emily Post

I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children. — Afeni Shakur

I feel like only now in my life do I really get it
do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from. — Sela Ward

Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you! — Sylvia Nasar

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons. — Jonathan V. Last

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid. — Joaquin Sorolla

I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives. — Richard Littlejohn