Pelles C Quotes & Sayings

It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books. — Ally Carter

A race track is a place where windows clean people. — Danny Thomas

Marcus always nodded patiently when his father said things like this. Sonny was forever talking about slavery, the prison labor complex, the System, segregation, the Man. His father had a deep-seated hatred for white people. A hatred like a bag filled with stones, one stone for every year racial injustice continued to be the norm in America. He still carried the bag. — Yaa Gyasi

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. — Camillo Di Cavour

Don't trust people who don't laugh — Maya Angelou

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.
(King Pelles the Sure) — Peter S. Beagle

I was born the 26th of December ... Arrive by dint of perseverance, but step by step ... Tenancy to exaggerate the importance of earthly life. Avaricious of self. Constant in their affections and their hatreds ... Yes, the Capricorn is a beast of solitude. Slow, steady, and persevering. Lives on several levels at once. Thinks in circles. Fascinated by death. Ever climbing, climbing. In search of the edelweiss, presumably. Or could it be immortelle? Knows no mother. Only "the mothers". Laughs little and usually on the wrong side of the face ... Speaks truthfully instead of kindly. Metaphysics, abstractions, electromagnetic displays. Dives to the depths. Sees stars, comets, and asteroids where others see only moles, warts, and pimples. Feeds on himself when tired of playing the man-eating shark. A paranoiac. An ambulatory paranoiac. But constant in his affections - and his hatreds. Ouais! — Henry Miller

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74) — Donald Rothberg

The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of religion ... these religious cleansers use political and legal means of containment. They are America's new anti-faith bigots. — Jay Sekulow

The more you give, the more you get. — Krishna Sagar

It's easy to get laid when you're rich and famous. When you're broke and unknown, it takes skill. — Kevin Bacon

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us. — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it. — Douglas William Jerrold

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else. — Nancy Lopez