Yovani Ayala Quotes

#1. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. A cork isn't useful unless you have a place to put it.

Ian Tregillis

#3. She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.

Donna Lynn Hope

#4. What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Guy Gavriel Kay

#5. It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

Joan Baez

#7. Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.

Delia Smith

#8. I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Dean Geyer

#9. I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.

Arthur Rubinstein

#10. The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

Simon Travaglia

#11. Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

George F. Kennan

#12. Koturovic's a surname," said Tim. "A patronymic. Not a middle name.

Peter Clines

#13. The seductive invitation of metamorphosis - of turning into something other - has continued to suffuse fantasies of identity; on the one hand holding out a way of escape from humanity, on the other annihilating the self.

Marina Warner

#14. Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

Bill Bryson