Raul Meireles Quotes & Sayings

In Miamis fariy tales are still produced around the clock, lovingly handmade one by one, and only the very very finest of them are exported. Most are only told once and then they fall flat on the ground, but the best and most beautiful of them rise from the lips of their tellers after the last words have been spoken, and then slowly hover off over the heads of the listeners, like small, shimmering paper lanterns. — Fredrik Backman

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent. — Malcolm Bradbury

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected. — George Packer

America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction." ... "We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction ... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems ballistic missiles that had been prohibited by the United Nations. — Dick Cheney

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it. — David Hockney

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves. — Emma Stone

I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel. — John Biggins

Learn what is true in order to do what is right. — Thomas Huxley

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property ... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature ... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism ... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory. — Reinhold Niebuhr

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television. — Sutton Foster

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss. — Erica Jong

Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie. — David Levithan

A lovely fatigue claimed him. He lay down on the grass and listened. He thought about how Kestrel had slept on the palace lawn and dreamed of him. When she had told him this, he'd wished that it had been real. He tried to imagine the dream, then found himself dreaming. — Marie Rutkoski

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people. — Patricia Cornwell

I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc. — Kevin Smith