Afugentar Pombos Quotes

#1. At eighty-four, I can only write the way I go on teaching, personally and passionately.

Harold Bloom

#2. Picking up the phone to say hello, somehow I never had. Are you okay?

Donna Tartt

#3. What is truth, if not an ongoing faith in, and continuing hope for, that which one feels and knows in one's heart to be right, all temporary and ephemeral contraindications notwithstanding?

George Saunders

#4. In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

#5. This land was brought up from the depths of the ocean by a diver," said the fire. "It was spun from its own substance by a spider. It was shat by a raven. It is the body of a fallen father, whose bones are mountains, whose eyes are lakes.

Neil Gaiman

#6. One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

Aleksa Palladino

#7. We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be unmanned? There are those who see [the JSF] as the last manned fighter/bomber. And I'm one that's inclined to believe it-whether it's right or not.

Michael Mullen