Quebradas Quotes & Sayings

Promoting a contemporary Australian novel is like landing at Gallipoli. You have to dig in and try to take some ground. — Russell Guy

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic. — Theodor Adorno

I'm somebody who plays the piano ... sometimes. — Harold Budd

I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them. — Joseph Wiseman

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years. — Cobi Jones

Real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut. — Donna Tartt

I'm not sure he could've handled a nip slip," she said blandly. — M.L. Brennan

Look: Words did not frighten my father. They scared the shit out of me. I almost couldn't believe I'd worked up the guts to ask the question and not choke to death in the process. But words were the atoms in my father's universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator. — Andrew Smith

If you don't know why you'd hire you, neither will they. — Frank Sonnenberg

What will happen to me when I die is, after all, like asking what happens to my fist when I open my hand — Alan W. Watts

At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun. — Barry Goldwater

Metaphysics is never more than semantic pleasantries anyway. — Haruki Murakami