Astbury Meadow Quotes

#1. I like the Indian casino names - Pechangas - Morongos. They all sound like women's breasts.

Ted L. Nancy

#2. Kashays [anger-pride-deceit-greed] will not leave by suppressing them, they go away through Gnan (Enlightened Knowledge).

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness.

Sorin Cerin

#4. One of the nice things about a second book is that your readers already have so much of the introductions on board, they don't have to put all their attention into figuring out the world and can more easily let that play out as a background to the other things you want to do.

Ann Leckie

#5. If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course ... Real estate values go 'boom!'

Adam Carolla

#6. Human violence as a kind of fractal - self-similar on all scales from bar fight to system-wide war. The buildup of insults and lost face that swelled over the course of an evening or a century. The shoving and shoving back, neither side sure they wanted to escalate and uncertain how to back down.

James S.A. Corey

#7. There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

Margaret Mead

#8. The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

Anais Nin

#9. Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up nearly so well, that I'm just a shadowed reflection of them. Now that question hounds me a lot more often than I like to admit.

Cooper Davis

#10. Did they think I would throw a tantrum?"
"Baby, you're not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type.

Ilona Andrews

#11. The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Walter Mosley

#13. At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.

Elaine Pagels