Lugares De Guatemala Quotes

#1. Language is an art, like brewing or baking ... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Charles Darwin

#2. Kafka saw both himself and Red Peter as hybrids, as monstrous thinking devices mounted inexplicably on suffering animal bodies.

J.M. Coetzee

#3. Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.

Margaret Atwood

#4. When loneliness mastered him he would go up to the cemetery ... The rest of his time was taken up with a liturgy of habits that succeeded in warding off sadness.

Alessandro Baricco

#5. Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Robert Heilbroner

#6. For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

Francis Quarles

#7. How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

Francois Fenelon

#8. She had no time for anything humdrum, banal, or mundane - to the extent that the task of cleaning her desk at every night had to be done with a bottle of Perrier water and Chanel No. 5.

Anna Wintour

#9. I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

Nicholas Lea

#10. I have detected disturbances in the wash.'
'The wash?'
'The space-time wash.'
'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?'
'Eddies in the space-time continuum.'
'Ah ... is he. Is he.'
'What?'
'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?

Douglas Adams

#11. When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me?
Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl

Kami Garcia

#12. Think positive, and don't listen to anyone telling you 'you can't.' You can. Trust me.

Gregg Sulkin