Adroitness Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Tolkien didn't just write 'The Hobbit,' he created a whole world. — Peter Hambleton

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other. — Larry Wall

No one talked about it, but somehow they all ended up in Neil and Matt's room. Matt and Aaron shoved the couch out of the way, and the girls showed up a minute later with blankets. The living room wasn't meant to sleep nine bodies but somehow they made a workable nest out of it. Foxes came and went as they grabbed pillows and changed into pajamas. For a moment, though, Neil and Matt were alone. Matt gave Neil's shoulder a careful squeeze. — Nora Sakavic

Great music is in the ear of the beholder. — Noel Gallagher

[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window. — Michael Anti

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead. — Cassandra Clare

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The worst is yet to come:
I'm still alive. — Jaroslav Seifert

People are influenced by what we are, what we radiate. This has greater appeal than what we say. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

He yearned for a thousand tremulous dreams, for cool and delicate images, transparent tints, fleeting scents, and exquisite music from streams of highly strung, tensely drawn silvery strings - and then silence, the innermost heart of silence, where the waves of air never bore a single stray tone, but where all was rest unto death, steeped in the calm glow of red colors and the languid warmth of fiery fragrance. — Jens Peter Jacobsen

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts? — Joshua Reynolds

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures. — Karen Russell

Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart. — Richelle E. Goodrich