Amaya's Quotes

#1. The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.

Elizabeth Lesser

#2. FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force is not might but must!"

Ambrose Bierce

#3. You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

Maat Morrison

#4. Where's your dog?' I ask quickly. 'Dawn said you had a dog. Let's take the dog out.'
'There ain't no dog,' replies Janis.

Carla H. Krueger

#5. It was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.

Micaela Flores Amaya

#6. I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

Carla H. Krueger

#7. Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

Carla H. Krueger

#8. My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it.

Carla H. Krueger

#9. Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

Stephenie Meyer

#10. The man who marries a woman for her beauty will be deceived; he who marries a woman for good sense can truly say he is married. - Sultana

Jean Sasson

#11. I show up because I'm an asshole, and I want to have a good time.

Gabourey Sidibe

#12. Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don't achieve that in reality.

Colleen Chen

#13. Christ greatly delights in
his people and they greatly
delight in him

John Owen

#14. Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali

#15. You are what you do. It's about actions.

Bill Maher

#16. One man's fight is another man's freedom.

Carla H. Krueger

#17. In fact, after that ride across Amaya, he still had blisters in all kinds of places where blisters shouldn't be.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.

Barack Obama

#19. I like very little to talk. There are many things I cannot say, I can only feel them and dance them.

Micaela Flores Amaya

#20. I have been very lucky. I have always been able to eat and drink and dance in my life so I am not afraid of anything. And if suddenly I should have nothing I would still be grateful.

Micaela Flores Amaya

#21. These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

Mark Lawrenson

#22. Her rapist went unpunished, and yet she was sterilized.70

Nancy Isenberg

#23. Karl Marx, Amaya liked to say, was the last great philosopher of the coal age; his workers were locked into a serflike condition. Had Marx witnessed the industrial explosion of the Oil Century and the rising standard of living it produced among ordinary workers, he might have written differently.

David Halberstam

#24. It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.

Wolf Pascoe

#25. By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

Spencer Bachus