Metropole Hanoi Quotes & Sayings

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away. — Louise Brooks

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths. — John Wesley Powell

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. — Patricia Highsmith

Flakes. I was exhausted, shattered, in bewilderment. But behind the bewilderment the truth was — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty... — Ilona Andrews

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. — Lao-Tzu

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. — Nikola Tesla

I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it. — Ray Lewis

Fear is passion in a negative direction. — Debora M. Coty

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun, fear, and self are one. What is exhilarating is to extend this acute awareness into ordinary moments, in the moment-by-moment experiencing of the lammergeier and the wolf, which, finding themselves at the center of things, have no need for any secret of true being. In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us ... the present moment. The purpose of mediation practice is not enlightenment' it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. — Peter Matthiessen

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that? — Jeremy Piven

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means. — Aristotle.

I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it. — Todd Stocker

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account. — Charlaine Harris