Pedromlcasals Quotes & Sayings

What we're doing, or, I should say, what you're doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes into people's brains to cause a neurochemical reaction to knock out the filters. Tie them up just long enough to slip an instruction past. And you do that by speaking a string of words crafted for the person's psychographic segment. Probably words that were crafted decades ago and have been strengthened ever since. And it's a string of words because the brain has layers of defenses, and for the instruction to get through, they all have to be disabled at once.'
Jeremy said, 'How do you know this?'
'Do you think I'm smart?'
'I think you're scary,' he said. — Max Barry

James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh. — Julia Quinn

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government. — Henry David Thoreau

The Bungalow 4 counselor was a twenty-year-old college student named Eric who had terrible acne and wrote poems about the local girls who worked in the kitchen and how their breasts looked lonely but also beautiful, like melted ice cream. — Kelly Link

Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of — Georgette Heyer

We will walk to God
barefoot:
our feet lacerated,
our limbs wounded. — Saadi Youssef

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. — Thomas Carlyle

I've had three wives. I've had five weddings. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Arabella tilted her head, and Theodore couldn't help himself. Her lips were right in front of him, and he needed to claim them. He settled his lips over hers and the world melted away. — Jen Turano

You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it. — Kekla Magoon

What do all men seek? I want to be happy. I would like a wife and sons one day. But I want them to grow in a land where there is hope for the future, where men do not take to the road. If that is a hopeless dream - and maybe it is - then I will sire no sons. I will wander, and play my harp, and weave my magick until the end. — David Gemmell

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family. — John Lasseter

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade. — Harlow Shapley