Pensum Derecho Quotes

#1. If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

Willa Cather

#2. I'm a post-menopausal woman who's lived in a man's world for twenty years. A more cynical, cruel creature it's hard to find.

Mo Hayder

#3. We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

Frank Zappa

#4. All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

Carl Sagan

#5. In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever.

Sheila Carey

#6. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#7. Bell lifted her hand to her chest. Her heart beat so quickly. She was floating out on a tide of agony, and soon she would be carried so far she'd never come back.

Ayana Mathis

#8. Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.

Tina Brown

#9. If talent is a natural aptitude for creation with an outlook on life peculiar to oneself, then genius is to have an outlook on life, peculiar to oneself, which yet appeals to everybody. Talent is for oneself and a few others, but genius is universal.

D.E. Stevenson

#10. You are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

David Eagleman