Platanos Fritos Quotes & Sayings

Inborn in almost every artistic nature is a luxuriant, treacherous bias in favor of the injustice that creates beauty, a tendency to sympathize with aristocratic preference and pay it homage. A — Thomas Mann

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. — George Will

The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland. Along the edge of a nation's territory, its real prejudices, fears and obsessions - but also its virtues - irrepressibly bubble up as its people confront the 'other' whom they admire, or fear, or hold in contempt, and know little about. — Derek Lundy

Do Tasmanian devils really exist? — Tom Cochrane

Via had warned me about lunch in middle school, so I guess I should have known it would be hard. — R.J. Palacio

There ain't enough happens in soccer. It's like watching twenty-two hair models kick a ball around for what seems like six months and then one of them falls over and the ball goes in the goal. — Warren Ellis

Which was why Skye was in a recliner that went hot and cold more often than Blair and Nate. — Lisi Harrison

Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted. — Apostolos Doxiadis

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see. — Paul Simon

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. — Raf Simons

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse. — Samuel Johnson

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me. — Erykah Badu

This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach