Potros Quotes & Sayings

To do that Cinnamon had to fill in those blank spots in the past that he could not reach with his own hands. By using those hands to make a story, he was trying to supply the missing links. From the stories he had heard repeatedly from his mother, he derived further stories in attempt to recreate the enigmatic figure of his grandfather in a new setting. He inherited from his mother's stories the fundamental style he used, unaltered, his own stories: namely, the assumption that fact may not be truth, and truth may not be factual. The question of which parts of story were factual and which parts were not was probably not a very important one for Cinnamon. The important question for Cinnamon was not what his grandfather did but what his grandfather might have done. He learned the answers to this question as soon as succeed in telling the story. — Haruki Murakami

What god do you serve? Inej had asked him. Whichever will grant me good fortune. Fortunate people didn't end up racing ass over teakettle beneath an ice moat in hostile territory. — Leigh Bardugo

I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value. — Dov Seidman

Twenty talks, hundred thoughts, deep into the soul
Another soul penetrates. — Upasana Banerjee

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush — Zbigniew Brzezinski

The FBI's information network was a classic closed network: not only could outsiders not access information in it, but also, the system was designed so that documents were carefully shielded from other members of the organization, a legacy of an institution predicated on secrets and "need to know" restrictions. — Steven Johnson

There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination. — Yuval Noah Harari

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere. — Justin Guarini

You can't change the past. It's already done. Looking back only keeps you there. — Donna Grant

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level. — Shannon Miller

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed. — Azar Nafisi

His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history. — James S.A. Corey

I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right! — Xavier Dolan

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us — B.B. King