Miquetorio Quotes & Sayings

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value. — Ezra Taft Benson

Children are no antidote to loneliness. — Erica Jong

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure. — Leila Josefowicz

Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called. — Nancy Mellon

That's why you never hear politicians talking about 'citizens,' it's all 'taxpayers,' as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay. Like the state was a business and citizenship was a loyalty program that rewarded you for your custom with roads and health care. Zottas cooked the process so they get all the money and own the political process, pay as much or as little tax as they want. Sure, they pay most of the tax, because they've built a set of rules that gives them most of the money. Talking about 'taxpayers' means that the state's debt is to rich dudes, and anything it gives to kids or old people or sick people or disabled people is charity we should be grateful for, since none of those people are paying tax that justifies their rewards from Government Inc. — Cory Doctorow

I'd never met such a sexually responsive woman. I could fuck her forever. I could fuck her and say filthy things I could never say to anyone else. She was free. Unrepressed. An open door. — C.D. Reiss

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop — Richard Dawkins

Be confident because the odds are in your favor.' He clears his throat, like talking this much hurts him. 'Not because you're a special snowflake. — Hannah Moskowitz

The shark is fierce, the whale is mighty, but the ocean is both. — Matshona Dhliwayo

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison

After that there was silence for a while, only the sound of the shovel biting into the earth and the hissing splatter of the loose dirt.
They stood him up, his back to the well.
In the dark, desperate sky, just above the scalloped line the treetops made, three stars formed a pleading little constellation. No one looked at them, no one cared. This was the time for death, not the time for mercy.
("The Number's Up") — Cornell Woolrich

If sinners speak, why should the righteous listen? — George R R Martin

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful. — Victor Hugo

Baseball wasn't easy for me. — Ryne Sandberg