El Delantal Blanco Quotes

#1. If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.

Ted Trueblood

#2. I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Terri Blackstock

#3. I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

Alan Rickman

#4. while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.

Ralph Ellison

#5. It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

Thom Yorke

#6. There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

Rahman Baba

#7. I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

Paloma Picasso

#8. I do not wish for anyone's downfall. The world needs successful people. I just think of ways to add more value to myself, and wish that my adversaries would do the same.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#9. I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

Frank Oz

#10. It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.

Richard Bach

#11. All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. Great things always happen in the life of great people.

Osunsakin Adewale

#13. But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

Barack Obama

#14. Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#15. Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt

C. G. Jung