Mustonen Conductor Quotes & Sayings

The Suffering Pilipino: We Pinoys suffer collectively from a cultural inferiority complex. We are doomed by our need for assimilation into the West and our own curious fatalism...He describes us as a complex nation of cynics, descendants of warring tribes which were baptized and colonized to death by Spaniards and Americans, as a nation betrayed and then united only by our hunger for glamour and our Hollywood dreams. — Jessica Hagedorn

The book of war, the one we've been writing since one ape slapped another, was completely useless in this situation. We had to write a new one from scratch. — Max Brooks

And they say an addiction to novels is bad for you. — Anne Gracie

It's truly interesting to observe how genetics works in families, and what a huge lottery it is to inherit some of our relatives' appearance features. — Sahara Sanders

The voice is deep and soft, not a sound so much as a feeling. It is storm and wind and leaves twisting in the night. It is roots sucking deep at the earth, and the pale, sightless creatures that live below the ground. But there's something wrong with this voice, something diseased at its core. — Sabaa Tahir

The kiss blew Zoe's socks off. It was so easy to get lost in the promise of what he offered; no wondering, wishing, worrying ... Wrapped up tight in him as she was, she felt tempted. — Jill Shalvis

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. — Ken MacLeod

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse. — Cyprian