Himbasha Quotes

#1. The intellectual is called on the carpet ... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

Herbert Marcuse

#2. She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.

Richard Brautigan

#3. The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

Anita Desai

#4. The screaming skeleton stopped screaming when I gave him an old teddy bear, although I'm not certain why that worked,

Terry Pratchett

#5. Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.

Jerry Stahl

#6. Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.

Jean Chatzky

#7. But I promise," she breathed into the soil, "I promise that I will stop him. I promise that I will never forgive, never forget what they did to you. I promise that I will free Eyllwe. I promise that I will see your father's crown restored to his head.

Sarah J. Maas