Orrantia Del Quotes & Sayings

I still can't picture what he does in his every day life when he's not busy with school or misdemeanors or me. — Brenna Yovanoff

If you dress like a movie star, you have me. — Steven Cojocaru

May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary. — Susan Barbara Apollon

Crocker, it's about property values."
"It's about being in place. We -" gesturing around the Visitor's Bar and its withdrawal into seemingly unbounded shadow, "we're in place. We've been in place forever. Look around. Real estate, water rights, oil, cheap labor - all of that's ours. And you, at the end of the day, what are you? one more unit in this swarm of transients who come and go without pause here in the sunny Southland, eager to be bought off with a car of a certain make, model, and year, a blonde in a bikini, thirty seconds on some excuse for a wave - a chili dog, for Christ's sake." He shrugged. "We will never run out of you people. The supply is inexhaustible. — Thomas Pynchon

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it. — Rumi

O brother, the gods were good to you.
Sleep, and be glad while the world
endures.
Be well content as the years wear
through;
Give thanks for life, and the loves and
lures;
Give thanks for life, O brother, and
death,
For the sweet last sound of her feet, her
breath,
For gifts she gave you, gracious and
few,Tears and kisses, that lady of yours. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings. — Jay Weatherill

Knowledge helps man see possibilities where he once saw problems. — Serena Stone

And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could ever have imagined in his wildest dreams. Too hot to be white, it was a searing ghost at the frontiers of the ultraviolet, burning its planets with radiations which would be instantly lethal to all earthly forms of life. For millions of kilometers around extended great veils of gas and dust, fluorescing in countless colors as the blasts of ultraviolet tore through them. It was a star against which Earth's pale sun would have been as feeble as a glowworm at noon. — Arthur C. Clarke

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less! — Tracy Chevalier

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am. — Michael C. Hall

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken. — Lisa Kleypas

I was once that little boy
Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour — Lupe Fiasco

...khalepa ta kala...It means that that which is worth having--the good, fine, honorable, and noble things--are difficult to attain...It means something else as well...It means 'beauty is harsh'. — Cassandra Clare

Her white arms became my entire horizon

("The Rooster And The Pearl") — Max Jacob