Yesid Arango Quotes & Sayings

You may very well be the death of me one day. But what a way to go. — Nicole Williams

A big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves ... I strongly suspect a big part of real art fiction's job is to aggravate this sense of entrapment and loneliness and death in people, to move people to countenance it. — David Foster Wallace

Losing a family member, and her dying knowing she didn't have to die, that ... is a scar that will last forever for the people remaining, and even with good actions and good words, that scar will never disappear. Ever. — Kim Du-han

In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic. — Mona Van Duyn

I had wanted to escape my traveling childhood, yet I was traveling and making the discovery that ordinary people are smart, smart people are ordinary, decisions are best made by the people affected by them, and human beings have an almost infinite capacity for adapting to the expectations around us - which is both the good and the bad news — Gloria Steinem

There's no shortcut to an optimized whole and no complex system will ever really be optimal. — Jurgen Appelo

The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young. — Arno C. Gaebelein

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined. — Evelyn Glennie

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means. — Benjamin Ward Richardson

Al, you're the most wonderful man I've ever been terrified by down a dark alleyway. Will you marry me? — J.L. Merrow

Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life! — Malcolm McLaren