Ondina Maldonado Quotes & Sayings

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people. — Nicholson Baker

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with. — Paul McCartney

Because happiness itself is a mythical construct, a dream you humans tell yourselves to get through each day. It is the moon, and you, like the sun, pursue it relentlessly, chasing it around and around, getting nowhere. — Jessica Khoury

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere. — Michael Bond

till he'd tried it. You have to understand. There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't know fear. He might be cautious - — Peter Benchley

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking. — Fernando Pessoa

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. — Charles Dickens

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me. — Tony Kushner

It's all about makeup. — Joe Torre

Inspiration is all around us. Don't let the brain limit the mind . — Lisi Harrison

We change the earth and our changes may only be temporary; yet the signs of what we have done may persist, as these mounds did. — Alexander McCall Smith

One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being. — Lokanatha Swami

You tell him that - tell him he fucks with the angel at his peril. — Sylvain Reynard

And while there are countless ways that we rip ourselves off, there's one way in particular that is, without a doubt, the most rampant and the most devastating of all: we invest everything we've got in believing that we're not good enough. — Jen Sincero

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us. — Charles De Lint