Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.

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• But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Fans

• God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

  

  Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Find
  • Fearless

• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Trees
  • Preachers

• The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Knowledge
  • Books
  • Evils

• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hope
  • Tears
  • Flowers

• Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Talent

• And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Present
  • Felt
  • Detached

• There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

  

  Alec Baldwin
  • People
  • Movies
  • Choke

• I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Die
  • I Think
  • Rise

• The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Family
  • History
  • House

• The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

  

  Plato
  • Justice
  • Injustice
  • Pretended

• This was the west and we were westerners, and no bureaucrat in Washington was going to regulate what our companies did in our state. So, we gulped down hot smog and pretended like we enjoyed it because we were too fucking stupid to look out for our own best interests.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Stupid
  • Interests
  • Enjoyed

• She smiled and wanted to cry, too, for a moment. From happiness, she supposed. ‘What a wonderful day to be in love and be loved. I’m so happy.

  

  Betty Neels
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Moment

• When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Gift
  • Precious
  • Itself

• A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.

  

  Nadia Abu El Haj
  • Creative
  • Succeed
  • Machines

• And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Smiled
  • Pretended
  • Trigger