Montecristo Cigar Quotes & Sayings

Sinking, sinking, drinking water. When everyone in the village was fasting a long month,when not a grain, not a drop of water passed between the parched lips of any able-bodied man, woman or child over the age of ten, when the sun was hotter than the cooking pot and dusk was just a febrile wish, the hypocrite went down to the pond to duck his head, to dive and sink, to drink and sink a little lower. p. 105 — Monica Ali

All monsters are scared.
That's why they're monsters. — Neil Gaiman

Make yourself so happy, that by looking at you, other people become happy. — Yogi Bhajan

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. — Laura Linney

Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry? — Jorge Luis Borges

So that human beings were miraculous indeed - conscious creators, walking this new world like fresh young gods, wielding immense alchemical powers. So that anyone Michel met on Mars he regarded curiously, wondering as he looked at their often innocuous exteriors what kind of new Paracelsus or Isaac of Holland stood before him, and whether they would turn lead to gold, or cause rocks to blossom. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow. — Amy Lowell

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. — Ernestine Rose

It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project. — Jay Asher

To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world. — Adam Mansbach

My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much. — Catherine Hicks

If I panic, everyone else panics. — Kobe Bryant