Mazatlan Messenger Quotes

#1. An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.

John D'Agata

#2. I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

Laurie Graham

#3. I'm a horrible typist. That's why I became a writer.

Glenn Hefley

#4. Oh! what lies we women have to tell! When we are mothers, we tell lies to pacify our children; and when we are wives, we tell lies to pacify the fathers of our children. We are never free from this necessity.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.

Adolph Kolping

#6. From my shaft it was three hundred sixty-three feet. I had someone measure.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

Daniel Radcliffe

#8. From loss breeds new opportunity

Bernadette Marie

#9. Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#10. This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

Shirley Knight

#11. Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

Emile M. Cioran

#12. Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

Ellen Gilchrist

#13. Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Charles Caleb Colton