Illuminative Strategies Quotes

#1. we only remember what never really happened.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship.

Guy Maddin

#3. I wish you a vivacious day of love, laughter, and joy. Have an awesome birthday!

Debasish Mridha

#4. It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expected what he found and-she thought-saw no use in being discouraged.

Robin McKinley

#5. They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

Euripides

#6. When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

Janet Jackson

#7. Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.

Amy Bloom

#8. People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Eric Hoffer

#9. The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

Harry S. Truman

#10. Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

Jim Butcher

#11. I loved him, just for a minute. I loved him and I grieved for him and my pity was part of the beauty, before the shame began.

Tanith Lee

#12. You should be flattered, he said mildly. Not many breathers affect me this way.

Evangeline Anderson

#13. Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

Melissa Etheridge

#14. The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.

Angela Lansbury