Altamiro Manuel Quotes

#1. It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

Gregory Maguire

#2. The illusion of depth in a character is created simply by withholding information from an audience. A character will seem complex and intriguing only if we don't know the reasons why.

Eleanor Catton

#3. Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.

James Richardson

#4. Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

Majel Barrett

#5. For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

Christopher Smart

#6. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors.

Rob Ford

#7. The millions of skin-bound complications of salt water and minerals that were human bodies scattered throughout the Belt still needed food and air and clean water, energy and shelter.

James S.A. Corey

#8. My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

Travis Barker

#9. The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. We want to keep believing in our ideas even when the writing is on the wall.

Eric Ries

#11. Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#12. I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

Gennifer Flowers

#13. I cannot come nearer to God and Heaven
Than I live to Walden even.
I am its stony shore,
And the breeze that passes o'er;
In the hollow of my hand
Are its water and its sand,
And its deepest resort
Lies high in my thought.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again
and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Mark Twain