Sobrado Quotes & Sayings

If there are words for all the pastels in a hue - the lavenders, mauves, fushsias, plums, and lilacs - who will name the tones and tints of a smell? It's as if we were hypnotized en masse and told to selectively forget. It may be, too, that smells move us so profoundly, in part, because we cannot utter their names. In a world sayable and lush, where marvels offer themselves up readily for verbal dissection, smells are often right on the tip of our tongues - but no closer - and it gives them a kind of magical distance, a mystery, a power without a name, a sacredness. — Diane Ackerman

The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner ... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times. — Thrity Umrigar

They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone. — Joe Hill

To be loved, adored, and worshipped like that by the person you loved in turn had to be the most amazing thing in the world. — Suzanne Wright

It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism — M.F. Moonzajer

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken. — Rick Warren

Let's go get our friends, Mark said. — James Dashner

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig. — Richard Attenborough

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ... — Roberta Flack

CULTIVATE THE GOOD WITHIN — William H. Cormier