Vilmarie Rivera Quotes

#1. They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.

Zora Neale Hurston

#2. If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

Mark Twain

#3. In jail you learn that there are two kinds of guys in this world - and I don't care if they're human or bloodsuckers - there's the ones that take it and the ones that hand it out. And this guy, man - this guy gives it out like fucking candy ...

Guillermo Del Toro

#4. Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.

Bob Carlisle

#5. I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.

Phil Klay

#6. My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of the Rings' because it was so massive, but it's something I've always believed in, wanting to change people's perceptions and challenge myself as an actor.

Elijah Wood

#7. Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

Miyamoto Musashi

#8. Once you make something you think it's awesome, but it's only after you listen to it for a few weeks then you actually get a proper perspective on it.

Flume

#9. It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

Jim Saxton

#10. On our life map, he drew a bright circle around twelve through eighteen. This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to reemerge on corners and prison tiers.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

John Henrik Clarke