Menino Bonito Quotes

#1. Who hears the wishes and goodbyes? The speaker does ... And you hope that what you say from the heart has power. Power to protect, power to reach the ears of the dead. A spoken thing or a whished-hard thing takes a shape within the heart, man. Takes shape. Becomes real.

Adrian Phoenix

#2. I knew everything about the back of that head - the swirl of his hair, the curve of his ear, the straight, sharp line of his jaw. I liked the way he smelled like soap even late in the afternoon.

Karen Thompson Walker

#3. Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

Wendy Davis

#4. It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people.

L. Frank Baum

#5. I stopped knowing what to fight against."
"May you find some measure of happiness in your surrender. May we all.

Kiersten White

#6. Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

Robert Breault

#7. The world is coming to an end in 1950.

Henry Adams

#8. Election is the only course of action that identifies liars before they are in power.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you're not actually thinking about any of that stuff, because Buddhism is fundamentally about something that requires no thought.

Karen Maezen Miller

#10. What I created got abominated.

Ralph H. Baer

#11. There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

Ovid

#12. Only in books do we learn what's really going on.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. I pass beneath a fixed white line of trees where dry leaves lie for footsteps to dismember. They crackle with a muted sound like fear. That and the wind are all that I can hear. I ask cold air, "What is the word that frees?" The wind says, "Change," and the white sun, "Remember.

Samuel R. Delany

#14. All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.

Yoko Ono