Plagas Quotes

#1. No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

Sue Grafton

#3. I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

Sam Manekshaw

#4. America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

Djimon Hounsou

#5. The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Willa Cather

#6. A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

William Ellery Channing

#7. At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

Adam Schiff

#8. An economist is a man who, when he finds something works in practice, wonders if it works in theory.

Walter Heller

#9. Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

Maya Angelou

#10. One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

John Steinbeck

#11. All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Franz Kafka

#12. The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

Jose Mourinho

#13. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.

Moira Katson

#14. Music (is) woven into the fabric of the corporeal world.

Kate Mosse