Quedarse Quotes & Sayings

Not the wish to die with dignity but the desire to have died — Christopher Hitchens

Well, my life had been nothing but selfish up until then. Nothing should ever come before family. I learned that the hard way. — Penelope Ward

To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality. — Roland Barthes

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better. — Drew Carey

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking. — Richard Rhodes

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people. — Christopher Alexander

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day. — Phil Jackson

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. — Bill Williams

We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week. — Howard Bach

India and its peoples; not the British India of cantonments and Clubs, or the artificial world of hill stations and horse shows, but that other India: that mixture of glamour and tawdriness, viciousness and nobility. A land full of gods and gold and famine. Ugly as a rotting corpse and beautiful beyond belief ... — M.M. Kaye

I didn't get paid for my first gig supporting Usher Raymond in the Temple in Tottenham when I was 17 or 18. I bugged the promoter to let me play and it went down a storm. And after that I got loads of gigs, which were paid. — Lemar

If the relation of morality to art were based simply on the demand that art be concerned with values, then almost every author should satisfy it even if he wrote with his prick while asleep. (Puritans will object to the language in that sentence, and feminists to the organ, and neither will admire or even notice how it was phrased.) — William H Gass

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains. — Winston Churchill