Sarduy Severo Quotes & Sayings

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty? — Jack Kerouac

I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety. — Adam Shankman

I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is. — John Irving

She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own. — Ann Brashares

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end. — Michael Palin

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride

More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform. — Tony Bennett

You could stay in my bed."
That conjured up all kinds of dangerous thoughts. Stop it, he told himself. Her teddy bear is in this room. — Claudia Gray

Again and again workers told me that they are under tremendous pressure not to report injuries. The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based in part on the injury rate of their workers. Instead of crating a safer workplace, these bonus schemes encourage slaughterhouse managers to make sure that accidents and injuries go unreported. Missing fingers, broken bones, deep lacerations and amputated limbs are difficult to conceal from authorities. But the dramatic and catastrophic injuries in a slaughterhouse are greatly outnumbered by less visible, though no less debilitating, ailments: torn muscles, slipped disks, pinched nerves. — Eric Schlosser

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it? — Guy Pearce