Mestiza De Sangley Quotes & Sayings

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. — Max Lerner

I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions. — Carl Jung

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas. — Neil Gaiman

One is perhaps too inclined to think only of him alive at some future time when we shall meet him again; but it is really so much more helpful to think of him as just separated from us for the present. — Andrew Hodges

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. — Frank Black

Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily. — Yann Martel

Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It's a look that no human eyes should ever have. — Orson Scott Card

There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes. — Nhat Hanh

I realized my dream and was proud to be a Superstar. I never won a title, but being hired by WWE and being a Superstar, to me, was like winning a championship. — Robert Maillet

Am I not a woman and a sister? — Maria W. Stewart

More accurately, on the bed and on the table lay various pieces of what had once been a body.
Holmes was leaning with his back against the wall, his countenance deathly white. "The door was open," he said incongruously. "I was passing by, and the door was open."
"Holmes," I whispered in horror.
"The door was open," he said once more, and then buried his face in his hands. — Lyndsay Faye

His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion. — Julian Barnes