Tropico El Presidente Quotes & Sayings

He remembered another one of his mother's saying. It was back when she'd birthed Fanny, her tenth. Someone had siad it was about time she gave up mothering and rested. "Nay," she had said. "I've started something, and now I wouldn't stop if I could, and I couldn't stop if I would. — James Alexander Thom

One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping. — Cleveland Amory

I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all. — Norah Jones

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue. — John Yarmuth

My favorite quote for First Frost is, They give their hearts away too easily and get distracted by silver-eyed strangers. — Sarah Addison Allen

Capital T-truth is about life before death. — David Foster Wallace

It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind. — Aisha Mirza

I can't go as far as Barthes in killing off the author, but I'm with him on the importance of the reader. We are the ones, after all, who exist long after the author (the real, physical being) is in the grave, choosing to read the book, deciding if it still has meaning, deciding what it means for us, feeling sympathy or contempt or amusement for its people and their problems. Take just the opening paragraph. If, having read that, we decide the book isn't worth our time, then the book ceases to exist in any meaningful fashion. Someone else may cause it to live again another day in another reading, but for now, dead as Jacob Marley. Did you have any idea you held so much power? — Thomas C. Foster

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. — J.K. Rowling