Carmen Salinas Quotes

#1. No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

Virginia Woolf

#2. The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

Susan Sontag

#3. Light is constant, we just turn over in it.

Marilynne Robinson

#4. The fact of the matter is, we really and truly need each other. Women naturally seek friendship, support, and companionship. We have so much to learn from one another, and we often let self-imposed barriers keep us from enjoying associations which could be among the greatest blessings in our lives.

Bonnie L. Oscarson

#5. Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

Ann Beattie

#8. In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando