Montanya Twins Quotes

#1. When people fight for ideals, no price is too high, and no fight can be surrendered. They aren't fighting for money, or power, or control. Not really. They're fighting to destroy their enemies.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#2. It is one of the secrets of happiness that you know which battles you can win and which you can't.

Robert B. Parker

#3. Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

Rumi

#4. I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

Patti Smith

#5. How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

Stephanie Danler

#6. I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.

Wylie Dufresne

#7. As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Simone Weil

#9. You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.

Edward Brooke

#10. It's funny when people say they see a lot of Madonna in me. I just feel so flattered because I love her and I am just her biggest fan. She is very strong. I love the way she does interviews -you know you won't get anything past her.

Lady Gaga

#11. His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself.

Marcel Proust

#12. As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'

Paul Tonko

#13. Everything is so much more intense when I'm out of my body- the movie soundtrack is louder, the television screen is brighter, Courtney Merrill's perfume could gag a pig.

Gina Rosati