Cactuses In The Desert Quotes

#1. At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.

Denise Scott Brown

#2. Streams of conscious 'knowing' flows like the Nile when one is open from within.

T.F. Hodge

#3. Writing is the rock on which everything is built.

Dan Rather

#4. I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like ... 'Why? What did I do?'

Dakota Johnson

#5. We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Russell Kirk

#6. My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.

Robert Carlyle

#7. A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.

Natalie

#8. I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

Ruth Rendell

#9. Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer!

Donna Brazile

#10. Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.

Dave Barry

#11. Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira