Quitara Apartara Quotes & Sayings

How could she have imagined that it would be possible to live, to move, in the unnatural field of Virek's wealth without suffering distortion? Virek had taken her up, in all her misery, and had rotated her through the monstrous, invisible stresses of his money, and she had been changed. — William Gibson

Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood. — Edward Abbey

The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever. — Rudolfo Anaya

In many companies, the person who talks the best usually gets the job. I got snowed by a few of those people over the years. I still think communication is important, but I don't think there's always a correlation between being a great communicator and other virtues that make for a great leader. — John Mackey

A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together. — Howard Graham Buffett

Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer, or to command the raging storm be silent, this is a delight that saints and angels know which man, exiled from Eden, has lost. We are dumb and deaf in a world given to our dominion. — John C. Wright

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not. — Chris Wedge

You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine. — Dorothy Parker

The wizards' automatic response to any problem was to see if there was a book about it. — Terry Pratchett

It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all. — Kenneth Patchen

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a
midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person. — Plato

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke. — Luther Vandross

love something I don't possess. — Paulo Coelho

I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much. — Brigid Brannagh

The hot macadam pulled on his shoes, like desire ... — Martin Amis