Aamil Wagner Quotes & Sayings

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some. — Richard Bach

For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works. — Annia Ciezadlo

The thunder of love is unassailable. — Ted Baillieu

Mom, my bed was shaking. — William Peter Blatty

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time. — Clark Gable

Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do. — Kate Beaton

I need you to rescue me from my destiny, I'm tryna live right and give you whatevers left of me. — Drake

What people don't understand about deer is that they're vermin. They're giant, furry cockroaches. They invade a space, reproduce like hell, and eat everything in sight. — J. Ryan Stradal

Learning how someone else is already doing the thing you want to do, or a version of it, can eliminate fear - every path is easier to follow when you see someone else's footprints already on it. — Blake Mycoskie

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out. — Paula Poundstone

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau