15940 Quotes & Sayings

All the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel
the welcoming hand of the interested stranger. — Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

Living a hard life with niggas whose loyalty was only for the streets, and never for a woman, was embedded in me. — Jessica N. Watkins

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does. — Ben Carson

Hark ye yet again,--the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event--in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. — Herman Melville

Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as inventive and creative as the writer can make it, a whirlwind of images and plot twists, but it cannot be built on a foundation of air. The world must be identifiable with our own, must offer us a frame of reference we can recognize."
"Fantasy stories work because the writer has interwoven bits and pieces of reality with imagination to form a personal vision. — Terry Brooks

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. — Thomas Hobbes

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon? — Tom Petty

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door. — Stella Benson

Maybe the reason we all picture serial killers as schlubby, middle-aged white guys is because they are the ones who get caught. — Chelsea Cain

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom! — Paulo Coelho