Yumara Quotes & Sayings

fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process. — Chris Baty

American failures in Vietnam and Iraq suggest that it's not really possible to create and sustain a proxy government in a country far from our own borders. — Jay Parini

To use Matthew's own language, turning the other cheek makes sense if and only if it really is true that the meek will inherit the earth, if and only if it really is true that those who act on Jesus' words have built their house on a rock so that it will stand in the day of judgment. Turning the other cheek makes sense if and only if all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus. — Richard B. Hays

Had I ever truly been free? Though I wasn't shipped off to different countries did that make me any less of a prisoner? — Kay Harding

Sex and Strawberries is my new favorite scent. — T. Saint John

I worry these days that Latinos in California speak neither Spanish nor English very well. They are in a kind of linguistic limbo between the two. They don't really have a language, and are, in some deep sense, homeless. — Richard Rodriguez

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.) — Ovid

I'm a walkawayer. If someone brings me a really crap meal in a restaurant I will tell them it's wonderful and then just never go to the restaurant again. I think that's the best way to do it generally, rather than sit and fight and annoy your head. Just pretend to enjoy it and then leave. — Jennifer Saunders

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan. — Yayoi Kusama

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not. — Patricia Briggs

Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time. — James A.C. Brown