Cabeza de Vaca had wrapped her in his arms and in his language, whispering about a life she did not understand although understanding seemed to form just beyond the sea and sand, waiting there for her to grow older. Even when the story confused her, ...
My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelati...
I went outside. Tried taking in the billions of stars above, lingering long enough to allow each point of light the chance to scratch a deep hole in the back of my retina, so that when I finally did turn to face the dark surrounding forest I thought ...
We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass. And then I open the door and go to ...
Barbed-Wire Salesman: I've never seen a man so broken up over a woman. What did he say her name was, Cara, Sara? Older Man on Train 2: Clara. Barbed-Wire Salesman: Clara! Clara Clayton: [Clara's eyes light up and she spins around in her seat] Excuse ...
The law is good, but people are not.
I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.
The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead...
Advent creates people, new people.
People are trying to kill people. Well, those people need to die.
Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on the...
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.
You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.
There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.
Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living.
The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is their perceptions of reality.
Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.
