Peleando Contra Quotes

#1. To make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

Marianne Wiggins

#2. We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

Garrison Keillor

#3. Simple kindness can move the world.

Debasish Mridha

#4. The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

Adam Gopnik

#5. Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

Samuel R. Delany

#6. Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.

Steven Morrissey

#7. There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

Michael Nesmith

#8. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

David McCullough

#9. Our arrival there and not at a busier, more crowded airport on the other side of town was yet another example of the magical efficiency and convenience of vampire travel.

Deborah Harkness

#10. Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

Debora Spar

#11. I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

Marlene Dietrich

#13. Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Saint John Chrysostom

#14. This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

Ian McDonald

#15. Travis lifted me off the ground, twirling me around.
"Happy birthday, Pigeon," he said with a soft expression.
I stared into his warm, brown eyes for a moment, feeling lost inside of them. The room was frozen in time as we stared at each other, so close I could feel his breath on my skin.

Jamie McGuire