Perico Ripiao Quotes & Sayings

Obviously it's easier to grow faster when you are a less developed country than when you are where the U.S. is. — Chris Hayes

I'd have to say that the 1994 Woodstock completely destroyed anything that came after it. — Charlie Benante

A stranger to compliments, she turned her face to this one, like a sunflower worshipping the sun. Thanks. — Katy Regnery

Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big. — Bill Hader

Philosophick Work, to proceed at all smartly, wouldn't you agree, requires a controll'd working-space. — Thomas Pynchon

Whenever you see the words 'hee hee hee' in a book, or 'ha ha ha,' or 'har har har,' or 'heh heh heh,' or even 'ho ho ho,' those words mean somebody was laughing. In the case, however, the words 'hee hee hee' cannot really describe what Vice Principal Nero's laugh sounded like. The laugh was squeaky, and it was wheezy, and it had a rough crackly edge to it, as if Nero were eating tin cans and he laughed at the children. But most of all the laugh sounded cruel. — Lemony Snicket

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited. — Robert E.Lee

I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. — Nicole Krauss

A sheep in wolf's clothing should not bleat within the pack. — Dave Duncan

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Tired of that hermeneutical delirium, the workers turned away from the authorities in Macondo and brought their complaints up to the higher courts. It was there that the sleight-of-hand lawyers proved that the demands lacked all validity for the simple reason that the banana company did not have, never had had, and never would have any workers in its service because they were all hired on a temporary and occasional basis. So that the fable of the Virginia ham was nonsense, the same as that of the miraculous pills and the Yuletide toilets, and by a decision of the court it was established and set down in solemn decrees that the workers did not exist. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A thought that had been in the archives of his mind for many months came sharply into relief: of all human beings alive, the scientists were the only ones who retained imagination, ideals, and a sincere interest in the larger world. It was to them he should give his allegiance, not to the statesmen, not to industry or commerce or war. — Philip Wylie