Americo Vespucio Quotes

#1. I sit in the front seat listening to the hum of the engine with a kind of dread, not for what Mama will say but for what she won't. For the gap she will leave for me to fill.

Wendy Jean

#2. There was a time when all I could tell you was that the wine was wet. When I grew older, I learned to describe its taste.

Terry Foley

#3. This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

Doris Lessing

#4. I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.

Stan Lee

#5. It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Ibrahim Babangida

#6. My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

Joan Bauer

#7. The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out.

Mark A. Roeder

#8. Love should give wings to the feet of service, and strength to the arms of labour.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. affinities under the crust of colonialism. This brief overview of precolonial North America suggests the magnitude of what was lost to all humanity and counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#10. I think people prefer to remember happy times, well, happier times, and if they can't remember them, then to change the memories and make them happier.

Donna Leon

#11. I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself ... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

David Blaine

#12. If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

David Mamet

#13. I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.

Cathleen Schine

#14. Surely mortal man is a broomstick!

Jonathan Swift