Alas Babylon Highwaymen Quotes & Sayings

I have an intensive relationship with the thing that I'm working on, and I hope that comes through. It's better for me to not worry about the things I can't fix once they're done. — Ben Mendelsohn

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically ... — Georgia O'Keeffe

A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about. — Jessica Capshaw

And, don't you see, the terror of the position was not in being knocked on the head - though I had a very lively sense of that danger, too - but in this, that I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low. I had, even like the niggers, to invoke him - himself - his own exalted and incredible degradation. There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the ground of floated in the air. — Joseph Conrad

That's what makes you a human being
that willingness to sing another one free. — Martin Prechtel

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine. — Caitlin Fitzgerald

Today's dreams create tomorrow's hope. So act today and hope for the best. — Debasish Mridha

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans. — Taylor Caldwell

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court. — Suzanne Curchod

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. — Irvine Welsh

She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies."
"Sometimes I think that's all we owe our parents. — Bethany Griffin

I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic puzzles; I love line-editing like I love perfectly organizing a bookshelf; I hate reviewing copyedits and the second round of proofreading because, by then, I'm getting pretty tired of my own words. They all have their own challenges, though. — Tim Pratt

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free. — Henry Fielding

I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind."
"Never," I say. "Not never."
He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither."
"You promise?"
"Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly.
"I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again. — Patrick Ness