Nacaranda Quotes

#1. In the twilight that was now the colour of dust, in the fury of horns that was a national language because honking had telegraphic properties..

Manu Joseph

#2. Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

George W. Bush

#3. Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Dee Dee Myers

#4. Symbolic forms have always been the supports of civilizations, their laws, and their morality. Since symbolic forms are illusions, and illusions sustain civilization, those who rule must maintain illusion.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#5. My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

Rickey Henderson

#6. He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn't even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#7. The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#8. There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

Calvin Trillin

#9. We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'

Sinbad

#10. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

John H. Vincent

#11. Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

Lawrence Venuti

#12. And though you understand the pecking order and respect the judge - and even if the judge says "Great argument, Counselor Kaling, the court concurs" - you also just want to not have to plead your case all the time. I wanted to be the judge, jury, and executive producer. (See what I did there?)

Mindy Kaling