Pico Mundo Quotes

#1. Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Dean Koontz

#2. Our acquaintances - not our friends - are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. When he was this close to me, I could feel his palpable yearning. I could sense that gut-wrenching loneliness he'd suffered.

Kresley Cole

#4. Then why, Michael asked "are you expecting perfection out of yourself? Do you really think you're that much better than the rest of us? That your powers make you a higher quality of human being? That your knowledge places you on a higher plane than everyone else on this world?

Jim Butcher

#5. Jack stood by his shoulder, very much aware of the scent of Ullman's cologne. All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all came into his mind for no reason at all, and he had to clamp his tongue between his teeth to keep in a bray of laughter.

Stephen King

#6. Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.

Nick Offerman

#7. Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

Ovid

#8. Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful.

Pharrell Williams

#9. It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

Joy Behar

#10. Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.

Christine Lavin

#11. My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

Joan Jett

#12. All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

Sally Ride

#13. He had told her that he would never care deeply for her, that he was incapable of strong feelings. Tess would - would /spit/ before she believed that nonsense.

Eloisa James

#14. She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think.
Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

Cormac McCarthy