Simplifica Madeira Quotes & Sayings

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and penance. — Thiruvalluvar

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining. — Lester Del Rey

Clarity! Accuracy! Think of your words as a key to fit into the lock of your meaning. Cast them with precision. That key should then be swift and perfect in achieving its aim. Well shaped talk is a release from the indefinite. It is explanation. Preparation. Nothing more. — Jane Borodale

What's strange is, the people who want to be in the position are never asked to be in the position. Like, if you don't want to do something, then people really want you to do it. And the more you say, "No, really, I'm sorry, it's really not for me," the more they want to convince you that it is, in fact, for you, and that you'd be absolutely perfect. — David Sedaris

I said Ted Cruz has been lying because if you say something that isn't true, and you say it over and over again, and you know that it's not true, there's no other word for it. — Benjamin Carson

Nyx had to admit she had a soft spot for plain folks. There was something to be said for finding beauty in the rough. — Kameron Hurley

The number of times she'd said "wait and see" to herself in her thirty years of existence was way beyond counting. — Francoise Sagan

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The fight for photography became my life. — Alfred Stieglitz

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be. — Jessie Pavelka

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive. — Tea Obreht

It is better to be dumb and smart than to be vocal and dumb. — William DeGraftColeman

I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right? — Michelle Tea

There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission. — Joel Achenbach