Sterzer Velasco Quotes & Sayings

That boulder did what it was there to do. Boulders fall. That's their nature. It did the only natural thing it could do. It was set up, but it was waiting for you. Without you coming along and pulling it, it would still be stuck where it had been for who knows how long. You did this, Aron. You created it. You chose to come here today; you chose to do this descent into the slot canyon by yourself. You chose not to tell anyone where you were going. You chose to turn away from the women who were there to keep you from getting in this trouble. You created this accident. You wanted it to be like this. You have been heading for this situation for a long time. Look how far you came to find this spot. It's not that you're getting what you deserve - you're getting what you wanted. — Aron Ralston

i want to be a singer — Stephen Manes

I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat. And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed. — Esther Hicks

But you reassure yourself that at least here they are safe from baleen whales and oil slicks and cocktail sauce. — Carl Sagan

Forgive me. Sometimes an answer can vary with a context, if you follow me — John Le Carre

They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery. — Lew Wallace

The first time at Louis Vuitton was Spring 2009 season, and I remember that the colors of the clothes were very dreamy. — Liu Wen

Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off. — Daniel Mendelsohn

These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves. — Robert A. Heinlein

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing. — Luis Fortuno

But your own tears blind you to mine.
I am not neglectful of friendship,
but we two squat in the same coracle,
we are both swamped by the same stormy waters,
I have not the gifts of a happy man ... Often enough. — Catullus

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be. — Catulle Mendes

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that. — Jason Dohring

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off. — Bell Hooks

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation. — Pico Iyer