Gervasio Artichokes Quotes

#1. Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can't let go of the past.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

Norton Juster

#3. I knew maps of the sea floor, maps that depict weaknesses in the shield of the earth, charts painted on skin that contain the various routes of the Crusades. So

Michael Ondaatje

#4. Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive.

Louise Gluck

#6. The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#7. Because I'm black?" I straight out ask, hating that being different can be a code word for being black, for something that isn't white. "No" - he

Sona Charaipotra

#8. The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

Rem Koolhaas

#9. How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy? Simple: the atomic reaction you expect isn't taking place, the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength.

Julian Barnes

#10. Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

Mickey Spillane

#11. I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, This is the best way for people to find out about me.

Jen Kirkman

#12. And you never fall behind?"
"Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I'm speaking," he added, with a boyish grin.

Zack Love

#13. We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

Margaret Mead

#14. Let's absurdify life, from east to west.
Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. That's a fifteen-hundred dollar bedspread. Do you know what that means?"
Jessica held up a finger as she finished chewing, a sparkle of excitement in her eyes. "Oh, yes, I know this one. It means that you're an idiot for paying that much money for a semen towel.

Jewel E. Ann