Tavolata Cebu Quotes & Sayings

Why do I have to earn it by being good? Don't you feel like bragging?"
"It's better when you beg," he said, his voice low. "It's always better when you beg. — Robyn Carr

It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography ... I knew when I went into photography that I would be compared to my mother. I thought to myself, what can I do about that? — Amy Arbus

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice. — N. T. Wright

I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens. — Kathryn Erskine

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in. — Alexa Vega

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for. — John Otway

A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The reader of a novel, however, is isolated, more so than any other reader(For even the reader of a poem is ready to utter the words, for the benefit of the listener.) In this solitude of his, the reader of
a novel seizes upon his material more jealously than anyone else. He is ready to make it completely his own, to devour it, as it were. Indeed, he destroys, he swallows up the material as the fire devours logs in the fireplace. The suspense which permeates the novel is
very much like the draft which stimulates the flame in the fireplace and enlivens its play. — Walter Benjamin

Dell Computers announced they're releasing a competitor for the iPad. Now it is, in fact, a great alternative for people who already have an iPad, but are fed up with it working all the time. — Craig Ferguson

Marriage is what marriage is ... It's like going out and saying, 'That tree is a car.' Well, the tree's not a car. A tree's a tree. Marriage is marriage. — Rick Santorum

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities. — Neville Cardus

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins. — Henry James

Only the mother tree remained in the middle of the clearing, bathed in light, heavy with fruit, festooned with blossoms, a perpetual celebrant of the ancient mystery of life. — Orson Scott Card

I'd finally come to understand what *it* had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. — Cheryl Strayed