217 Viking Quotes & Sayings

Why be puzzled by that? From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows? — Ernest Hemingway,

Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs. — Alessandro Del Piero

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information. — August Wilson

You realize that everything you think and feel now will be encompassed in the hyphen between two years. — Paige Harbison

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live. — James Young

Francis Ford Coppola observed, "The way to come to power is not always to merely challenge the Establishment, but first make a place in it and then challenge and double-cross the Establishment. — Adam M. Grant

I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I'd seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one's eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. 'This may be my last moon,' I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey. — Roman Payne

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins. — Elvis Presley

Don't spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes. — Toni Sorenson

If you can be talked into something, you can be talked out of it. But when you experience something for yourself, you can't deny that. It becomes your undisputed truth, and no one can convince you otherwise. — Michelle Stimpson

On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing. It's because white men have been doing that forever and Indian men have just learned how. That's how assimilation can work. — Sherman Alexie

I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him. — Jane McGonigal

Never scheme with a conniving dragon! — Becca Mann