Quantos Habitantes Quotes & Sayings

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire. — James Turrell

There is his religion of art, my young successor: rejecting life! Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of! And you will now be the person he is not living with! — Philip Roth

Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably. — Hippocrates

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. — Nelson Mandela

I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in a strange way they become commitments which one has to live. I have gained a deep respect for the demonic power of the word. Words are not idle. They have consequences. — Norman O. Brown

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.' — Gina Carano

My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet. — Angie Harmon

It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night. — James Agee

I might walk vast expanses
of earth and always be beginning
and I love beginning
or could learn
to love it. — S. Jane Sloat

Do you want to walk for a bit? It's probably ridiculously dangerous, but YOLO and what not. — Claire Zorn

Any minute now . . ."Two seconds later, the sound of an alarm filled my ears."What did you do?" I said over the noise as he backed up toward the bathroom door."The girl who gave you the note?""Yes . . .""I caught her staring at my lighter."I blinked. "You gave a child, in a psych ward, a lighter."His eyes crinkled at the corners. "She seemed trustworthy.""You're sick," I said, but smiled."Nobody's perfect." Noah smiled back — Michelle Hodkin

I am open to comments, I accept with with all humility, or at least what I can muster at short notice. — Neil Leckman