Mina V. Esguerra quote: "She and I, we were girls who never said anything. Never wanted to assume anything. It was a coping mechanism, saving our faces for when guys like Quin came along and acted all nice towards us."

You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
MICHAEL MINA

I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.
MICHAEL MINA

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Al...
DENISE MINA

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. Bu...
DENISE MINA

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a...
DENISE MINA

Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are al...
MICHAEL MINA

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's...
DENISE MINA

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one...
DENISE MINA

From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburg...
MICHAEL MINA

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur...
DENISE MINA

I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests...
MICHAEL MINA

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something r...
DENISE MINA

I loved growing up in Washington, but I have been a diehard, 100 percent 49ers fan since I was 11.
MICHAEL MINA

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
DENISE MINA

With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. S...
MICHAEL MINA

When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant st...
MICHAEL MINA

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
DENISE MINA

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and ...
MICHAEL MINA

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to....
DENISE MINA

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard...
DENISE MINA

You can do everything towards a certain action but you'll achieve nothing if you don't sketch it on ...
MINA TADROS

If you want to change the world, why don't you start with yourself
MINA TADROS

You don't have to be genius to be successful ... but if you're successful people will genius you, ev...
MINA TADROS

For every right ACTION, there is equal right OPPORTUNITY
MINA TADROS

I think LOVE stands for Letting Ourselves Value Everyone ... give yourself a chance to understand th...
MINA TADROS

Success is that feeling that comes after overcoming a failure, you will not feel it as long as you a...
MINA TADROS

To have GOALS is like having FAITH, you know they exist, you know they are essential and you know th...
MINA TADROS

Do not make Recession your Obsession, Just remember to forget it and you’ll be OK
MINA TADROS

LOVE Life and LIFE will Love you back
MINA TADROS

Remember and Study your Past to Succeed and Nourish your Present
MINA TADROS

For every ACTION in life there is a RE Action and for every NO ACTION there is NO ATTRACTION to LOVE...
MINA TADROS

If you realize the value of the lost past time, you will grasp the present and plan for the future.
MINA TADROS

Success comes from Within not Without
MINA TADROS

If you think that you can GOOGLE everything you want from life, then you need to rethink what exactl...
MINA TADROS

Recession is like Failure, it is an Event not a Person, so Just Move on
MINA TADROS

We should deeply understand what Recession means to Babies to understand why they were very happy in...
MINA TADROS

LIFE is a Delicate Manoeuvrings Between choices
MINA TADROS

When you die, it is not what you Have that counts ... it is what you Gave
MINA TADROS

When the time comes, you should be waiting ... it is better to be ready without opportunities than n...
MINA TADROS

The Faster you Give, the sooner you get ... but remember it all comes to what you Give
MINA TADROS

Your Quotes are this mirror that reflects your soul
MINA TADROS

I always pondered why do people change their cars as soon as they have problems with it while they n...
MINA TADROS

People will not let you down if you start lift them up
MINA TADROS

You can't love everyone unless you start loving your Mother in Law
MINA TADROS

There are things in life that you can't find on GOOGLE
MINA TADROS

My Dad asked me 'how come we never heard about RECESSION before?' I replied 'Because Now we are Amer...
MINA TADROS

Think Concession, you’ll have Recession and think Recession you’ll have Depression. We need to t...
MINA TADROS

If you want to change your world, you need to start cultivating good habits
MINA TADROS

If you don't want to start changing yourself, don't wonder why you're miserable
MINA TADROS

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self.

MAY your egotism be so gigantic that y...
MINA LOY

There is no Space or Time
Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity
MINA LOY

GOOGLE Yourself Before you GOOGLE the Internet
MINA TADROS

People fail because they are trying hard to change the picture inside the mirror not what inside the...
MINA TADROS

“If good habits are fatty unhealthy food, we’ll be eating them every single second, if good habi...
MINA TADROS

To change the world, you need to understand and accept that somethings doesn't change and other thin...
MINA TADROS

No matter what happened, there was always one thing Isla could rely on: the sheer arrogance of male ...
MINA CARTER

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to ge...
DENISE MINA

Being GRATEFUL is to be GREAT in Giving and FULL from Love
MINA TADROS

Before Motivation comes changing direction ... you don't want to get motivated in the wrong directio...
MINA TADROS

If you still can't find this thing that makes you wake up before sunrise full of enthusiasm ... then...
MINA TADROS

You need to look for Love inside you before you GOOGLE IT
MINA TADROS

Today's NEWS stands for 'Nothing Except World’s Sufferers'
MINA TADROS

Your Life is the sum of your Dreams ... Dare to Dream, Dare to Live and remember You are as Big as t...
MINA TADROS

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged...
DENISE MINA

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differ...
DENISE MINA

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. ...
DENISE MINA

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the s...
DENISE MINA

Protector and destroyer were two sides of the same coin. Who knew which one would come out in a toss...
MINA KHAN

You’re just a figment of my imagination. A fantasy?”
“Yes.” He didn’t dare move.
MINA KHAN

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V

Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded o...
V. VALE

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the...
CHARLES V

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
CHARLES V

What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
wasn’t feeling humiliated...
DANKA V.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
CHARLES V

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
CHARLES V

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes th...
CHARLES V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
CHARLES V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball
CHARLES V

I came, I saw, God conquered.
CHARLES V

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven
CHARLES V

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
CHARLES V

We're now taking some steps to better align our business with the needs and focus of our customers a...
CHARLES V

Jesus fuck. I’m sitting right fucking here, Prez. Maybe shelve the porn a little, yeah?
V. THEIA

Hope was a weak rebellion not meant for the likes of him.
V. THEIA

He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a p...
V. THEIA

His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was...
V. THEIA

There was some biblical irony in that somewhere only Mary Magdalene would understand hitting above h...
V. THEIA

He felt at peace knowing his little bit of a thing was safe and recovering inside.
V. THEIA

Hawk's belly sunk hollow, black and empty, much like his chest that corroded desire into something n...
V. THEIA

He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.
V. THEIA

Hawk was a fucking selfless savior, practically a saint. Where were his wings?
V. THEIA

She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her ...
V. THEIA

He wasn’t good. He was a goddamn cruel bastard.
V. THEIA

His little bit of a thing was an addiction he shared with no one.
V. THEIA

For what it was worth he already knew he resembled a pissed off serial killer most of the time, he w...
V. THEIA

He watched with his predator eyes.
The hunger in them unmasked.
He was addicted.
H...
V. THEIA

A man once said the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting diff...
V. THEIA

A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a seri...
KARTHIKEYAN V

Divorce is like a death but with intent
KATHIEY V.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while t...
EUGENE V. DEBS

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was ha...
T. V. CARPIO

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
T. V. CARPIO

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PRITCHETT

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. NAIPAUL

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. NAIPAUL

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
V. S. NAIPAUL

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people&#...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
V. S. NAIPAUL

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situatio...
V. S. NAIPAUL

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that i...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishi...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did...
V. S. NAIPAUL

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral h...
V. S. NAIPAUL

It is important not to trust people too much.
V. S. NAIPAUL

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thin...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of...
V. S. NAIPAUL

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the myste...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to fe...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The world is always in movement.
V. S. NAIPAUL

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V. S. NAIPAUL

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
V. S. NAIPAUL

A cat only has itself.
V. S. NAIPAUL

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
V. S. NAIPAUL

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where t...
V. E. SCHWAB

I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley an...
V. E. SCHWAB

I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remem...
V. E. SCHWAB

I like to play with tropes.
V. E. SCHWAB

I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging fro...
V. E. SCHWAB

I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, ...
V. E. SCHWAB

As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enou...
V. E. SCHWAB

I'm pagan.
V. E. SCHWAB

It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out ma...
V. E. SCHWAB

It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
V. E. SCHWAB

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. I...
V. E. SCHWAB

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I hav...
V. E. SCHWAB

So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as...
V. E. SCHWAB

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across ...
KING GEORGE V

Nothing is wasted.
E. V. LUCAS

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its language...
E. V. LUCAS

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
E. V. LUCAS

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. LUCAS

The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS

There are two words for everything.
E. V. LUCAS

There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. LUCAS

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E V LUCAS

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
ANDREW V. MASON

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, din...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE

It's counterproductive to lower my price, because I have to sell more units to make up for that ...
MARK V. HURD

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the star...
C. V. RAMAN

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
JOHN V. POLITIS

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
MAY V. SMITH

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. NAIPAUL

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...
MARIA V. SNYDER

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...
EUGENE V. DEBS

There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU

How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V

It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
MARIA V. SNYDER

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
JENNIFER V. CLANCY

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PRITCHETT

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. LUCAS

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
ANDREW V. MADSON

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage an...
JAMES V. FORRESTAL

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V. S. PRITCHETT

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against ...
E. V. COOKE

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps ...
HAROLD V MELCHERT

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. PRITCHETT

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
E. V. COOKE

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS

Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides wi...
V. N. VOLOSINOV

Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fac...
E. V. COOKE

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
V. RAYMOND EDMAN

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS

Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outs...
V. N. VOLOSINOV

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wa...
E. V. LUCAS

I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.
E. V. VERRALL

The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
V. S. PRITCHETT

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
V. S. PRITCHETT

Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]
PHILLIPE V. DESTOUCHES

I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
EUGENE V. DEBS

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of...
ANDREW V. MASON

While there is a lower class, I am in it.
While there is a criminal element, I am of it.
...
EUGENE V. DEBS

Behind every successful man, there is a woman; and behind her there is envy...
ANKALA V SUBBARAO

CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the ...
MARK V. HURD

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same...
RICHARD V. ALLEN

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
V. S. NAIPAUL

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent tim...
RICHARD V. ALLEN

She and I, we were girls who never said anything. Never wanted to assume anything. It was a coping mechanism, saving our faces for when guys like Quin came along and acted all nice towards us.

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