Valfrido Silva Quotes

#1. I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

Rufus Wainwright

#2. I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.

Jules Verne

#3. I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Karl Marlantes

#4. If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

Ludwig Borne

#5. There are much more terrible things than physical injury.

J.K. Rowling

#6. A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

Warren Eyster

#7. The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

Emanuel Celler

#8. He felt whole and clean and full of light. Of course he would mess up again. He could never be perfect. But at least now he had assurance. If the bullet hit him next time, he'd go from life on earth to life in heaven.

Karen Kingsbury

#9. Writing is acting on paper.

Lydia Anne Klima

#10. The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.

Andrew Solomon