Mascardo Juan Quotes

#1. Don't talk to me about the stars, about how cold and indifferent they are, about the unimaginable distances. There are millions of stars within us that are just as far, and people like me sometimes burn up a whole life trying to reach them.

Ted Kooser

#2. There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

Jenny Han

#3. The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.

Stephen Graham Jones

#4. As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

Graydon Carter

#5. He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill.

Geraldine Brooks

#6. He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

Tertullian

#7. Look at things as they can be, not as they are.

David J. Schwartz

#8. As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries.

Hassan Rouhani

#9. I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

Adrienne Rich

#10. Men got all the comfortable clothing trends.

J.A. Konrath

#11. I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

Winston Churchill

#12. Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

Octavia E. Butler