Retratos A Lapiz Quotes & Sayings

Over thirty of the fifty Outer Worlds, including my native Aurora, were directly colonized by Earthmen. Is colonization no longer possible?" "Well ... " "No answer? Let me suggest that if it is no longer possible, it is because of the development of City culture on Earth. Before the Cities, human life on Earth wasn't so specialized that they couldn't break loose and start all over on a raw world. They did it thirty times. But now, Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever. — Isaac Asimov

I'll never regret you. You're everything to me. — Lisa De Jong

Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite. — Robert A. Heinlein

Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love. — Joyce Carol Oates

A hint of the smile remained in his features at all times, particularly when he listened; it was a look of good-natured amusement, as if he were swiftly and patiently discarding the irrelevant in the words he heard and going straight to the point a moment ahead of the speaker. — Ayn Rand

When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle. — Nicole Holofcener

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected. — Catherine Hardwicke

The woman smiles. The smile is neither pleasant nor unpleasant: it is a smile like fine silver plate, used for one occasion and polished and put away once finished. — Robert Jackson Bennett

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken. — Akhil Sharma

We please the people we don't care for, we displease those we do! — Henry James

Sweet dreams, motherfucker! — Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

It's the soul's eye which stares at your beauty and knows you well. And from it's vantage point you're as visible as a sunny day — Leandra J. Kalsy