Quotes About The Mayas

#1. The experience of the Mayas is one more reminder that any interpretation of human evolution based on the idea of unilineal progress forwards (or upwards) is an illusion. Peoples decline as well as rise.

Hugh Thomas

#2. And the days began to walk. And they, the days, made us. And thus we were born, the children of the days, the discoverers, life's searchers. - GENESIS, according to the Mayas

Eduardo Galeano

#3. Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.

Kelly E. Lindner

#4. And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in the tombs; from grave to grave flute trills, harp chords answer one another.

Italo Calvino

#5. There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

Dee Dee Myers

#7. His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

Marcel Proust