Prefacio En Quotes & Sayings

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration. — Thomas De Quincey

And how would he learn his history now? Imagine growing up in a world where only generals and geniuses, empires and companies, had histories, not your own town or grandfather, house or Samantha - none of the things you'd loved. — William H Gass

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing. — Sophie B. Hawkins

The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times. — Carson McCullers

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. — Ernest Holmes

Doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief. — V.S. Naipaul

I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears! — Morgan Freeman