Silvio Rodriguez Quotes

#1. ...A mule kicked him in the head." She paused, and then said, "I always wondered if he provoked it. Deliberately."
Radzin snorted. "Suicide by mule?"
"Everyone knew that animal had a temper."
"There would be a dozen better ways to do it.

Helene Wecker

#2. She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

Nancy Farmer

#3. I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.

John Irving

#4. Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!

Marine Le Pen

#5. The writer's job is to arouse emotions. The stronger the emotions the better.

Johan Fundin

#6. To recreate a new aristocracy is the eternal task of every revolutionary project.

Guillaume Faye

#7. For most of the day, thoughts of Kirk had played through her mind in myriad ways, making her feel excited, happy, nervous, and rebellious all at the same time.

Loki Renard

#8. Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

Susan Hockfield

#9. Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#10. The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Gerrit Smith

#11. The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes ... cities so packed that they will no longer function ... vertical sprawl.

Leon Krier

#12. Uncork the cider ... Sabbath or no!

Thomas Hardy

#13. It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

Seth Godin

#14. I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.

Austin Scott

#15. It's not art, it's science.

Billy Sheehan