Soy Una Mujer Segura De Si Misma Quotes & Sayings

He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image. Just like in the movies, but better. People live in houses, not apartment buildings, he said, and then he embarked on a comparison of houses (one-story, at most two-story), and four- or five-story buildings where the elevator is broken one day and out of order the next. The only way buildings compared favorably to houses was in terms of proximity. A neighborhood of buildings makes distances shorter, he said. Everything is closer. You can go walking to buy groceries or you can walk to your local tavern (here he winked at Reverend Foster), or the local church you belong to, or a museum. In other words, you don't need to drive. You don't even need a car. And here he recited a list of statistics on fatal car accidents in a county of Detroit and a county of Los Angeles. And that's even considering that cars are made in Detroit, he said, not Los Angeles. — Roberto Bolano

Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. — Linus Torvalds

I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it. — Bat For Lashes

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back. — Pete Rose

a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen it. Nor — H.P. Lovecraft

It took me two years to give him all of my heart, and he threw it away in one night. — Dannika Dark

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode. — Martin Gore

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful. — Rae Hachton

When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out. — Joe Abercrombie

Anybody who has spent time in Indian brothels and also, say, at Indian brick kilns knows that it is better to be enslaved working a kiln. Kiln workers most likely live together with their families, and their work does not expose them to the risk of AIDS, so there's always hope of escape down the road. — Nicholas D. Kristof

I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that ... Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble. — John Chaney

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. — Douglas Coupland