Preservador Quotes & Sayings

Wintery day,
On my horse
A frozen shadow. — Basho Matsuo

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them. — Jules Verne

We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya. Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an act of terrorism. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them. — Matthea Harvey

I don't know what it is you see, and I don't know what you're feeling, but when you bring her between us, something happens inside of me. — Ella Frank

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there. — Robert D. Putnam

A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action. — Alfie Kohn

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that. — Isabel Lucas

I don't know about you, but I've got plans for next Thursday. And I'm not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse. — Deborah Blake

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about. — Paul Theroux

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with. — Alain De Botton

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other. — Michael Dirda

The tears finally got the best of him and he pressed his palms to his eyes as his shoulders started to shake. He cried silently, in so much pain that there was no sound to equal it — Robin Benway