Bahia's Quotes

#1. Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers.

Bill Buford

#2. Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.

Gever Tulley

#3. It was to have been a quiet evening at home. Home is the Busted Flush, 52-foot barge-type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale.

John D. MacDonald

#4. Most commercial products that contain organic molecules possess at least one carbon-carbon double bond, or if one is not present, it is likely that an olefin was used in its preparation. This being the case, the potential applications of olefin metathesis are endless.

Robert H. Grubbs

#5. Bahia Mar marina, Fort Lauderdale.

Ted Bell

#6. The power to do anything was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong?

Lesley Howarth

#7. Faith is the deepest and truest form of magic.

Seth Adam Smith

#8. Georgie noticed she was wearing a small engagement ring.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

Robert Lane Greene

#10. conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.

Charles Dickens

#11. Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.

Chris Campanioni

#12. I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

Phil Jackson

#13. At the same time, his past lay before him like a corpse waiting to be embalmed.

Edward St. Aubyn

#14. In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

Stephen Rodrick

#15. He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One

Said Nursi

#16. How would one publish a living book, whose stories never ended?

Blake Crouch