Selectos En Quotes & Sayings

I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do. — Rick Scott

Each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard. — Rene Dubos

Art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality — Donald Barthelme

An essay course started at the Academy, I wrote about Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, one of the books I was really passionate about, alongside Bram Stoker's Dracula, and even though they didn't fall into the category of literature the teachers favoured and taught, I still received some praise from Fosse, he said my language was tight and precise, my arguments solid and interesting and that I obviously had a talent for non-fiction. The praise was two-edged: did it mean that my future lay in literature about literature and not in literature itself? — Karl Ove Knausgard

Now here was Saeed Saeed, and Biju's admiration for the man confounded him. Fate worked this way. Biju was overcome by the desire to be his friend, because Saeed Saeed wasn't drowning, he was bobbing in the tides. — Kiran Desai

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about. — Terence McKenna

10,000 tiny particles shatter between us. — Tahereh Mafi

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent. — Frederick Buechner

The gods love to laugh at a happy man, however. — Joe Abercrombie

One day, my father said there was nothing outside infinity. He said the universe was like a cardboard box with God sitting outside surrounded by light, but I wanted to know if maybe God was sitting inside another cardboard box with the light on, and how could anyone be sure how many cardboard boxes there are. — Hugo Hamilton

You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen? — Gloria Steinem

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also. — James Joyce

This is how Heaven works. They're practical. We are always looking for rays of light. For lightning bolts or burning bushes. But God is a worker, like us. He made the world - He didn't hire poor Indios to build it for him! God has worker's hands. Just remember - angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers. — Luis Alberto Urrea

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel. — Bryan Hayes