Sintons Quotes & Sayings

Mexico, as it was in the 1970s - and isn't now - was my Paris. With Mexicans, Europeans, and Americans I celebrated life and the journey, which took on qualities of a pilgrimage in which every moment was a movable feast and every place was a shrine. Among the intricately carved ruins in the jungle at Palenque, I partook of the Mayan sacrament, the sacred psilocybin mushroom, and there I learned to see. — Mason West

I am a writer of fragments. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — Mae West

Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one ... — Anais Nin

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. — John Locke

The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.
However, it is short-lived and fatal. — Billy Graham

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields ... it's more like a poem ... and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth. — Anna Torv

Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone ... will furnish us with a number of very important uses ... If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land. — Olaus Murie

People often talk about the pain and degradation of being bullied. No one really talks about the cost. Not that money is more important than those other things, but having to pay the expenses of your own humiliation just rubbed rock salt into the wound. — Lish McBride

Humanity is no longer the same. Its needs are no longer the same, and the needs of all around the world are recognizable. We need jobs. We need food. We need shelter. We need health care. We need education. These few things are the absolute necessities of all people everywhere, and yet even in the most-developed world, like America and Europe, no one has all of these things by right, unless they have money - and this is the rub. — Benjamin Creme

Start writing, and the muse will come. Not every time, but keep at it, and the muse will come enough for you to get the initial writing done. — Sam Barry

Heritage breeds, with or without Chinese "blood," are threatened primarily because they are not suitable for the ultraintensive farming practices that predominate in the West today. Generally, they don't grow fast enough for factory farming, or they require too much space and resources. The Iberico, for example, needs about an acre of oak woodland (called dehesa forest) per pig to supply the acorns for its famous hams.35 — Anonymous

No one, absolutely no one, can be trusted. — Shane Peacock

America today is less a democracy and more an oligarchy, — Robert T. Kiyosaki