Carmencita Abaquin Quotes

#1. Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.

Jon Johansen

#2. Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.

Slash

#3. True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Sri Aurobindo

#4. Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

David Gemmell

#5. I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.

Sophie Blackall

#6. Many of our problems are blessings in disguise.

O. Leslie Stone

#7. Each wave breaking against the cliff would believe it was dying for the good of the sea; it would never occur to it that, like thousands of waves before and after, it had only been brought into being by the wind.

Vasily Grossman

#8. You increase your productivity and creativity exponentially when you think about the right things at the right time and have the tools to capture your value-added thinking.

David Allen

#9. It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer.

Jo Durie

#10. Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

James Madison

#11. I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

James Frey