Zamarripa Academy Quotes & Sayings

Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason. — Douglas Adams

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis'
by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love. — John Barth

I figure if you truly love someone, it must be like the river: full of hidden surprises and sparkles so bright it just about makes your heart stop. — Jan Stites

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride. — Lewis Howard Latimer

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight. — Mercedes McCambridge

It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career. — Frederick Lenz

At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher. — James Thurber

We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two.
I think maybe we learn a few things each time that we don't forget. A few things that stick with us. It's just hard to pass those things on to those who come after us because if they didn't live through it, they don't view it the same way we do. If you don't experience something firsthand, it's a lot harder to accept. Terry Brooks, Bearers of the Black Staff, p 89 — Terry Brooks

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them. — Seth

Life's too short to spend with important people. — Harry Partch

the standard of culture is falling, — Anton Chekhov

What he has instead of a being, I thought, is blandness- the guy's radiant with it. He has devised for himself and incognito, and the incognito has become him. Several times during the meal I didn't think I was going to make it, didn't think I'd get to dessert if he was going to keep praising his family and praising his family ... until I began to wonder if it wasn't that he was incognito but that he was mad. Something was on top of him that had called a halt to him. Something had turned him into a human platitude. Something had warned him: You must not run counter to anything. — Philip Roth