Quebrada Baking Quotes & Sayings

Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I'm political. Sometimes that's all you need to do: Show up and be black, gay and Christian in America and actually say it out loud. And refuse to let anything or anybody take that away from you. — Billy Porter

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be. — David Levithan

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before. — Jacob A. Riis

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. — Annie Leibovitz

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward. — Lu Xun

We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end. — Harlan Ellison

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. — Marcus Aurelius

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune. — Laozi

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me. — Shia Labeouf

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

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. — William Shakespeare

He'd read in a textbook once a quote by the famous Captain Reynolds: I am not a brave man. But bravery, like most things, can be faked. And sometimes, in rare instances, it will lead to the real thing. — Dan Krokos

I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire. — John Niven

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. — Elizabeth Bowen