Skandera New Mexico Quotes & Sayings

Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo. — Edith Wharton

Do you know that you being here with that gun in your hand is more wondrous than the parting of the Red Sea? For someone like God, it would be easy to command the skies, the waters, the rocks. But to change a man's heart, for a man to choose to come here and acknowledge his helplessness, now, that is the province of miracles. — V.J. Campilan

I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives. — Allison Anders

The world had changed. And this new world was quiet and sad. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. — John Zimmerman

When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see. — Gae Aulenti

Laclos thought, how about a one-way ticket to Pennsylvania? You'd enjoy life among the Quakers. Alternatively, how about a nice dip in the Seine? — Hilary Mantel

Out of what ... a thousand? — Mickey Rivers

Confront your past, live in the present, and look forward to the future. — Mary A. Perez

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. — Robert Frost