Rebeliones En Quotes & Sayings

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing. — Mark Twain

When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come from Mexico, come from Korea, come from the Philippines, come from Salvador, and were doing really well, it motivates them to do better. The former students give them a vision of what's possible. — Rafe Esquith

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint. — Thomas Browne

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience. — Orhan Pamuk

I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown ... Please don't dig them out! — Elliot Cowan

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions. — Christina Stead