Naiche Sedillos Quotes & Sayings

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent. — Kenneth Goldsmith

Admit only your victories until you have hooked their interest, then you draw them closer and admit the sort of failings that reflect well on a fellow, sentimental failings: that was the theory of courtship the young master had formulated... — Claire Robertson

You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, there is no such escape possible except by perverting or mutilating one's nature. What would become of me, if I tried to escape pain? Scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless I could fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favourite of Heaven because I am not a favourite with men. — George Eliot

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness. — Anais Nin

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside. — Ramana Maharshi

In a social context, digital technology introduces you to neighbours of the mind - people who are separated by distance, but close to you in thought and interest. — Nick Harkaway

Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion. — Marv Albert

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream — Ron Pickering

What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans - small and large, crude and multifaceted - that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change. — Danica McKellar

Dear lieutenant, I think we all seduced you, deflected you from a course that might have let you live. Seeking something in the quick of us, searching to secure a kind of love with the provenance of age and land and family, you took over our premises; you presumed to the legacy that was ours, and if you did not see that such assumptions have their own ramifying repercussions, and that the stones demand their own continuity of blood, if you did not understand the gravity of their isolation, the solitude of their trapped state or the hardness of their old responsibility, still you cannot fault the castle or either one of us, or complain that you were led to your own conclusion.
I left the castle; you brought us all back. — Iain Banks

The United States, you know, people - one of the reasons that it is said that native people received citizenship in 1924 was so that they could be drafted. And they have been extensively drafted. — Winona LaDuke

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing. — Robert Jay Lifton

You can be a master
Don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself
Standing in the hall of fame — The Script