Ildefonso Quotes

#1. I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

Carlos Slim

#2. In death, hope is everlasting.

Ildefonso Falcones

#3. No hay libertad con hambre

Ildefonso Falcones

#4. It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.

Ilona Andrews

#5. Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

E. M. Forster

#6. What are you doing here, bridgeboy?" Adolin hissed from within his helmet.
"Playing one of the ten fools."
Adolin grunted. "Welcome to the party.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. I am passionate about everything in my life
first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society.
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Bell Hooks

#8. Future generations will judge us
not by what we say, but what we do.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#9. Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#10. That wasn't blood. It was love. It pours out of you when you lose faith.

Debra Anastasia

#11. When you're given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Eugene Cernan

#13. THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.

Mel Brooks

#14. I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.

Twyla Tharp

#15. The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#16. Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

Andre Maurois