Ahaner Quotes & Sayings

Honour and courtesy and justice ... they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them to us like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims. — Robin Hobb

There is no such thing as good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral- immoral from a scientific point of view. — Oscar Wilde

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it. — Stone Gossard

I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die. — Woody Allen

The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria. — Adam Nevill

In order to be treated fairly and equally, chidren have to be treated differently. — Melvin Konner

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. — Luigi Pirandello

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing. — Pearl Bailey

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked. — Barbara Kingsolver

The Winter inside me was torment and agony - but at least when I was immersed in it, I couldn't feel. — Jim Butcher

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is. — William Boyd