Yiye Avila Quotes & Sayings

strong ideas block the recollection of other information. This phenomenon is a big problem when a group sets itself the task of generating creative solutions. — Anonymous

In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word? — Jorge Luis Borges

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural. — Craig Clevenger

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges. — Steven Rattner

The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry. — George Steiner

Government should be elevated into a living moral force, capable of inspiring the people with a just recognition of the fundamental principles of society; — Niccolo Machiavelli

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages. — Norman Mailer

As you swallow the cow's tongue, think for a moment about how strange and holy that is, to devour the tongue of another. To steal from it all its power to speak, to low at the moon, to call to its calf. To be worthy of such food you must guard your own words carefully, speaking only the wise and clever ones, lest your tongue end up likewise, on the plate of a rich man. — Catherynne M Valente

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner
but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own — Henry Rollins

I was putting all those pressures on myself. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I believe in karma ... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it. — Scott Adams