Joaquins Burrito Quotes

#1. At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.

Paul Graham

#2. Because she was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust, she was all grit and sharp teeth gnashing, head twisting, talons out, tearing flesh. She was all open mouth, tunneling into an awful nothing.

Megan Abbott

#3. I can point you in a certain direction, maybe draw you a map and give you some ideas. I can't carry you where you need to go.

Eric Greitens

#4. Difference makers know how to work loose, to model, fine-tune, and play with ideas before they execute them to find changes that are likely to succeed.

David Sturt

#5. I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.

Hannah Simone

#6. Calling a piece of short fiction a "tale" removes it at least slightly from the realm of mundane works and days, as it evokes the world of the folk tale, the wonder tale, and the long-ago teller of tales.

Margaret Atwood

#7. I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

Ali Larter

#8. He shrugged his shoulders, like he had no idea what I was talking about. I loved that.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

W. H. Auden

#10. Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

Og Mandino

#11. Every day is Valentine's Day! I'm a hopeless romantic.

Hector Elizondo

#12. I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done.

Lawrence M. Krauss