Mireya Luis Quotes

#1. Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

Plutarch

#2. It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

Rob Portman

#4. You want to know
whether i believe in ghosts
of course i do not believe in them
if you had known
as many of them as i have
you would not
believe in them either

Don Marquis

#5. Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#6. natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.

Doris Bradbury

#7. Rick to Herschel: My wife is pregnant. That is either a gift here, or a death sentence out there.

The Walking Dead

#8. 99.9 per cent of the matter of all the human bodies on the planet, all 6 billion of them, takes up no more space than a single sugar cube. The rest is made up of empty space and drifts of electrons, nothing more.

Olivia Laing

#9. I think sometimes you can study guys and build them into giants that they are not.

Ryan Hall

#10. I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

Anjelica Huston

#11. Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

Dodie Smith