Quebrado Quotes & Sayings

For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners. — George Leonard

She didn't want to date anyone.
A relationship, if indeed she decided to cultivate one, was three years down the road. Minimum. She would never make the mistake ... [to] depend on someone else for emotional and financial support. First, she would make certain she was solvent, solid, and secure. And then, if and when she chose, she would think about sharing her life. — Nora Roberts

The summer colours have been drained from their bodies, and they've grown pale and flabby again. — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

I think, if you spend a day or as many people do a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially. — Brian Eno

I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people. — Wang Shi

I have spent all my years
accepting sad truths.
- Quebrado — Margarita Engle

We do not know what it's like to be a bat, we do not know what it's like to be in coma. we can't even say that we know what it's like to be sleeping. We can say what it's like to be restored to consciousness after sleeping. If there are no dreams during our sleep then the sleeping life is an empty life. We might say of such a life that it's not like being anything. We protect that life on the assumption that come the morning its normal functions will be restored. Suppose it was the case however that such functions were only restored every two days... every eight days... twice a year but only briefly. I assume the point is clear. Actions that end life are irretrievable. If we are mistaken at that point there is no going back. — Daniel N. Robinson

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann

No matter how invisible
I feel, I will always be wrapped
in the memory
of life as a captive.
- Quebrado — Margarita Engle

The only limitations we have are those we place upon ourselves. — L.J. Grandi

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual. — Bobby Flay

All In All Is All We Are — Kurt Cobain

Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same. — Constant Lambert

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself. — Chris Hughes

I still think of myself
as a broken place, a drifting isle
with no home.
- Quebrado — Margarita Engle