Ximenez Spinola Quotes

#1. You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.

Julian Barnes

#2. You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the number of great Pinot Noirs on one hand with change left over.

Andre Tchelistcheff

#4. I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Emma Watson

#5. As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

John Goodman

#6. Marcus stepped behind the bar, saying, "Dan sent me over to assist you and learn how to tend the bar."
Doms could be pain-in-the-ass mother hens.

Cherise Sinclair

#7. Not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.

Thomas Campion

#9. Is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile.

Marlon James

#10. Time alone is pornography for people with families.

Victor LaValle

#11. Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

Will Smith

#12. Our civilization rests on a faulty premise, that the world is physical and mechanical, energy and matter only. We do not pay for it in our bridges, we pay for it in the quality of our lives. "

Richard Grossinger

#13. They found it hard to imagine the smog-choked cities of the Twentieth Century, and the waste, greed, and appalling environmental disasters of the Oil Age.

Arthur C. Clarke

#14. She was alone.
She missed him immediately.

Sue Townsend

#15. what this instruction cannot give is the deepest benefit of any art, be it of making, or of knowing, or of experiencing: which is self-expression and self-discovery.

John Fowles