Conquistadorial Quotes

#1. The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

Germaine Greer

#2. For a while, it's just the sound of the water, and then Pen says, I didn't want him to die.

Lauren DeStefano

#3. Love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.

Robert Musil

#4. Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

Mac Barnett

#5. She grabbed a towel from the rail and wrapped it around him, lifting him straight out of the bath, kicking and screaming. She carried him into his bedroom and laid him with elaborate care on the bed because she was terrified she might throw him against the wall.

Liane Moriarty

#6. The vicious character of sin is brought out by the words "who gave himself for our sins." So vicious is sin that only the sacrifice of Christ could atone for sin.

Martin Luther

#7. Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

Anthony Michael Hall

#8. What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said

Nora Ephron

#9. I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.

Carrie Underwood

#10. Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.

Jude Wanniski

#11. I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

Mustafa Akyol

#12. Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ...

Shana Alexander

#13. The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.

Eric Thomas

#14. I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld