Roque Quotes

#1. Roque always did dress up a place. Unfortunately he's got the taste of a ninety-year-old orchestra first chair.

Pierce Brown

#2. You are but a mortal," Roque whispers in my ear, riding his horse alongside the chariot, as per tradition.
"And a whorefart," Servo calls from the other side.
"Yes," Roque agrees solemnly. "That too.

Pierce Brown

#3. And violent hearts set harshest flame, Roque murmurs from his knee.

Pierce Brown

#4. Croquet is bastardized roque.

Stephen King

#5. Uses that blade to slice open his hand and suck the scarlet blood from the wound before drawing up and spitting it into Roque's face.

Pierce Brown

#6. Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

Felipe Perez Roque

#7. The rose blinds the sharpshooting champions.

Roque Dalton

#8. Mather lifts a white eyebrow. "You don't have to actually yell, if you don't want to. Slightly elevated whispering would be fine.

Sara Raasch

#9. As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#10. My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

Roque Dalton

#11. Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

Martial

#12. How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

Henry David Thoreau

#13. There's a part of me that wants to look nice and occasionally wants to be snappy, and the other part of me that just wants to wear the same sweater until I die. And I'm in constant conflict between those two sides.

Hugh Dancy

#14. I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

Bode Miller

#15. And we passed through the cavern of rats.
And we passed through the path of boiling steam.
And we passed through the country of the blind.
And we passed through the slough of despond.
And we passed through the vale of tears.
And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

Harlan Ellison

#16. You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

Roque Dalton

#17. It's really special to have a niece because I have a son, so I get to have a little girl, too.

Solange Knowles

#18. I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Robert Cormier

#19. Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

Mark Kelly

#20. If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

Jacqueline Roque

#21. I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost its way running away from your sails.

Roque Dalton

#22. I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatcher

#23. The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#24. I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

Roque Dalton