Baldomero Pelegrin Quotes

#1. If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work ... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time.

George A Tice

#3. I can't kill myself, I thought. I'm too insignificant. I'm nothing. I'm a thumbprint on the first-floor window of a skyscraper, a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea along with millions of tons of raw sewage, a squirrel eating a nut as a car bore down on him.

Rex Pickett

#4. Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?

Anthony Doerr

#5. Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'

Lee Pace

#6. Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Konrad Lorenz

#7. There was almost general consent over the fact that the application of the Christ spirit and practice to the everyday life was the serious thing. It required a knowledge of Him and an insight into His motives that most of them did not yet possess.

Charles M. Sheldon

#8. Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

Max Lucado

#9. Eddy, I've made my own way since I was a kid, and when I marry it's going to be because the man I love and a girl named Tina are traveling together in the same direction at approximately the same speed, and each under his own power. I won't be steered, towed, nor provided with an icebreaker. ( ... )

Theodore Sturgeon

#10. 12he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Anonymous

#11. Conscious you believes it without question. And not merely believes it but experiences it.

David Eagleman

#12. My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path

Mary Ann Shaffer

#13. One never gets the same summer twice.

Philippa Gregory

#14. He experienced a strange reaction to the sight, a nearly overwhelming urge to go over to her, shove her back on the bed, and take her without preliminaries. To dominate her, and force her to admit his ownership.

Lisa Kleypas