Melancholy Whores Quotes

#1. Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences.

Sherry Turkle

#2. Under the burning sun on the street I began to feel the weight of my ninety years, and to count minute by minute the minutes of the nights I had left before I died.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

Mario Testino

#4. The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light - grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.

Eleanor Catton

#5. Hope is a function of struggle.

Brene Brown

#6. Work hard AND smart.

Mike Rowe

#7. I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

E.L. Konigsburg

#8. A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

Quintilian

#9. My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

George Stigler

#10. You become what you focus on and dream about.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez