1200cc Engine Quotes & Sayings

The southern half of Riverskin was indistinguishable from Flyside, which it adjoined. It was cheap and not too violent, crowded, mostly good-natured. It was a mixed area, with a large human majority beside small colonies of vodyanoi by the quiet canal, a few solitary outcast cactacae, even a little two-street khepri hive, a rare traditional community outside of Kinken and Creekside. Southern Riverskin was also home to some of the city's small number of more exotic races. There was a shop run by a hotchi family in Bekman Avenue, their spines carefully filed blunt so as not to intimidate their neighbours. There was a homeless llorgiss, which kept its barrel body full of drink and staggered the streets on three unsteady legs. — China Mieville

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography. — Mario Testino

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together. — Maurice Gibb

Don't drink your bathwater and don't pee on your feet. — James Gary Vineyard

I hated it when literally was used for non-literal things. I popped the tab on my soda can and returned her grin. Over my dead body ... literally. — Tarryn Fisher

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table. — Jane Lynch

Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away. — Nancy Pelosi

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence. — Libba Bray

My Aincrad style of swordsmanship was brought here from the floating castle. From a game of death, where every battle risked the ultimate price. — Reki Kawahara

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. — Ani DiFranco

The weakest spot in a good defence is designed to fail. It falls, but in falling it summons the next defence and so on. It's all about layers. At the end of it all you'll find yourself facing the thing you sought to avoid all along, only now you're weaker, and it's forewarned. — Mark Lawrence

A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out. — Jay Leno

If there is anything that puzzles me in this game, it is that the longer that you are in the job of prime minister, the harder you have to work to do your job. With anything else ... you get to know the ropes pretty well and it becomes easy. I feel the more you know, the more you have to know and the more problems come at you. It is certainly not because I do not delegate. — Pierre Trudeau