Zapatera De Madera Quotes

#1. [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

Fanny Kemble

#2. In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

John Van Hamersveld

#3. As Christian feel the changing winds of political climate, the blasts against their values in the media, the exclusion of the Christian faith from educational institutions, they begin to sense the dangers of complacency and of pietistical world flight.

Edmund Clowney

#4. Andy Kaufman's mom wanted a girl, his father wanted a boy, and they were both satisfied!

Jerry Lawler

#5. How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

Ian McEwan

#6. It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Georges Bernanos

#7. We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.

Enrique Penalosa

#8. You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Colin Powell

#9. But time brought healing,
Downsizing of ego,
And freedom from bondage.
Alas, neither damnation
Nor salvation
Would come -
No terror of some hellish fiend
Or apocalyptic fury
Upon his command.
There was nothing to fear,
And there was everything.

Kyrian Lyndon

#10. A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

George Nakashima

#11. Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

Auguste Rodin

#13. Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.

J.K. Rowling