Paulene Martinez Quotes & Sayings

... Wickard's novel colorfully illuminates the two sychronized protagonists, each displaying profound characteristics: Sami has trouble adjusting to her new life and Smitty balances his secret life with his normal one, with a (living) wife and infant daughter at home...

... assertive characters with distinct backgrounds provide a solid fountaion for the story of a killer on the hunt."

Kirkus Review February 24, 2012 — Douglas Wickard

I'd give up my career to chase moments with the right woman. — Claire Contreras

I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye. — Erro

When you are grateful to the rain, do not forget also the clouds! When appreciating something, be fair enough also to appreciate the sources that created it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is the concept of national unity — Ayad Allawi

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people. — Jerry Seinfeld

Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it. — Ken Keyes Jr.

About Justice departing from the shepherds: Justice illustrates a passage from Virgil's Georgics, in which he describes how Astraea, the goddess of Justice, who used to live among mortals during the Golden Age, took refuge among country people, as times degenerated, and at length fled even from them. Rosa shows the cloud-borne goddess departing from a tumbledown farmstead as she hands her sword and scales to a bemused group of peasants, one of whom awkwardly pulls of his hat in respect. — Jonathan Scott

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move — David Bronstein