Palanca Award Quotes & Sayings

I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. — Al Gore

'The Player,' I loved so much because it was such a labor of love on all levels, and it was such an enormous honor to be in a Robert Altman movie. — Cynthia Stevenson

George, I'm sorry!" he cried through his tears. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please, I'm suh-suh-SORRY - " And then they were around him, his friends, and no one lit a match, and someone held him, he didn't know who, Beverly maybe, or maybe Ben, or Richie. They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind. — Stephen King

Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato's Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature. — Susan Sontag

Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us]. — Baruch Spinoza

Well you should care. About my past, I mean. Because who I am today is based on who I was, and what happened to me. You are in love with who you think I am, not the real me. Not the me who is broken inside. — Cindy Vine

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job. — Jennifer Granholm

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about. — Tony Romo

Even while he'd been gone, she'd always know he was /there/, sharing the same planet with her, walking the same earth. — Julia Quinn

A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires. — Herman Cain

It is an aching thing to know that we are all so tiny, stumbling in a universe that is wider and darker than any Earth-bound sea. Two-fifteen — Scott Thomas

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. — George Bernard Shaw

A rose trapped inside a fist. — Henry Rollins

Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures. — Lionel Suggs