Cirilo Bautista Quotes

#1. The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.

Amin Maalouf

#2. ... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

Cirilo F. Bautista

#3. Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.

Cirilo F. Bautista

#4. Careful.
The fall is quick,
steep,
and permanent.

Jessica Kristie

#5. It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing them to give their best every moment of creation. Writing becomes their medicine, their way of escape, the catalyst for their imagination.

Cirilo F. Bautista

#6. I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world.

Tricia Helfer

#7. I want to tell the children of the world, you are all our children, each one of you is my child and I love you all.

Michael Jackson

#8. The guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#9. Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

Richard Mitchell

#10. Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?"
"I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful.

Carolyn Keene

#11. Judging from the contents of her shopping cart - imported cheese, organic raspberries, fruit wash spray - she is the exact quality of parent we need at Galer Street. I saw her in the parking lot. She was driving a Lexus. Not a Mercedes, but close enough! Did

Maria Semple

#12. We are an oasis in the desert, beautiful but doomed!

Clifford Lafrenier

#13. Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived, then, emitting intensity and beauty only achievable by a journey through pain.

Cirilo F. Bautista

#14. ... misfortune and creativity go together.

Cirilo F. Bautista

#15. Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. Nevertheless we laughed as best we could
Because we are helpless while we are loved.

Cirilo F. Bautista