Rincones In English Quotes & Sayings

Caviar. How very nice of them," Carol said, looking inside a sandwich. "Do you like caviar?" "No. I wish I did." "Why?" Therese watched Carol take a small bite of the sandwich from which she had removed the top slice of bread, a bit where the most caviar was. "Because people always like caviar so much when they do like it," Therese said. Carol smiled, and went on nibbling, slowly. "It's an acquired taste. Acquired tastes are always more pleasant--an hard to get rid of. — Patricia Highsmith

Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives. — Darnell Lamont Walker

(Psychoanalysis, it seems, does wonders for a man's prose style: it renders it labyrinthine without subtlety.) There is no place, then, for human agency, except the kind that leads you to talk about yourself in the presence of another for twenty years. Shallowness can go no deeper. — Theodore Dalrymple

For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line. — John Kinsella

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — W. H. Auden

Imagine a vast and glittering ocean seen from a great height. It stretches to the clear curved limit of every angle of horizon, the sun burning on a billion tiny wavelets. Now imagine a smooth blanket of cloud above the ocean, a shell of black velvet suspended high above the water and also extending to the horizon, but keep the sparkle of the sea despite the lack of sun. Add to the cloud many sharp and tiny lights, scattered on the base of the inky overcast like glinting eyes: singly, in pairs or in larger groups, each positioned far, far away from any other set. — Iain M. Banks

Emerson argued that "the whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual sleep." That — Huston Smith

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking. — Brendan Myers

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there. — Marla Maples

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Speak out for those who cannot speak - who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us? — Eric Metaxas

I don't know and I really don't like not knowing — Sherlock

Attraction is easily manufactured. — Erica Goros

Who you are is limited only by who you think you are. — Normandi Ellis