Ramalho Ortig O Quotes & Sayings

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts. — Lucy Calkins

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. — Ulysses S. Grant

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important. — Yvon Chouinard

Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride. — Tony Wilson

Give shape, artist! don't talk!
Your poem be but a breath. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely. I'm sick to death of living falsely. I've been doing it for years. — Sarah Waters

I advise all my novel students to write in the company of 'Veronica Mars.' — Andrea Seigel

Don't be afraid to dream of achieving the impossible. — Shalane Flanagan

It's something I really love to do. I mean, I don't see myself without tennis. — Flavia Pennetta

Well, it's nice to get something right for a change. You don't know how irritating it is - missing things the way I have been. I feel so useless. So ... normal." She cringed in horror of the word.
"I can't imagine how awful that must feel. Being normal? Ugh. — Stephenie Meyer

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. — James Fallows

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. — Alberto Moravia

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them. — Rose Tremain

You see, Islam is the only religion that gives both husband and wife a true understanding of what love is. The Western "love" concept, you take it apart, it really is lust. But love transcends just the physical. Love is disposition, behaviour, attitude, thoughts, likes, dislikes - these things make a beautiful woman, a beautiful wife. This is the beauty that never fades. You find in your Western civilisation that when a man's wife's physical beauty fails, she loses her attraction. But Islam teaches us to look into the woman, and teaches her to look into us. — Malcolm X

The facts are facts and records are records. — John McCain