Xiana Fontno Quotes & Sayings

One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another. — Osamu Dazai

Believing isn't wishing, Grady. What you know with your heart is the only thing you really ever know. — Dean Koontz

The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong. — Avery Dulles

And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul ... the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies. — Kate Chopin

The nymphs in green? Delightful girls.' 'It is clear you have been a great while at sea, to call those sandy-haired coarse-featured pimply short-necked thick-fingered vulgar-minded lubricious blockheads by such a name. Nymphs, forsooth. If they were nymphs, they must have had their being in a tolerably rank and stagnant pool: the wench on my left had an ill breath, and turning for relief I found her sister had a worse; and the upper garment of neither was free from reproach. Worse lay below, I make no doubt. — Patrick O'Brian

I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring. — Jacki Weaver

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

I'd grown impervious to all three of his facial expressions. — Cookie O'Gorman

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out. — E.L. Doctorow

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. — H.G.Wells

If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity. — Maria Semple

I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough. — Eugene Cernan

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. — Hunter S. Thompson

People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world. — Munia Khan

I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP. — Steve Nash