Amisse Quotes & Sayings

My obsession is with the macabre. I didn't write any of the stories which follow for money, although some of them were sold to magazines before they appeared here and I never once returned a cheque uncashed. I may be obsessional but I'm not crazy. Yet I repeat: I didn't write them for money; I wrote them because it occurred to me to write them. I have a marketable obsession. There are madmen and madwomen in padded cells the world over who are not so lucky. — Stephen King

All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience. — Max Anders

For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness? — Kathleen Moore

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. — Rob Walton

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. — Victoria Beckham

A bird is joy incarnate. — Myrtle Reed

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place. — Aldous Huxley

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me. — Michael C. Hall

It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity. — Cory Doctorow

I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne. — George Gascoigne

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible. — Reinhold Niebuhr

It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath. — Sterling Marlin

Inside, The Boneyard seemed to cover the area of a township and the bar looked as long as the railroad tracks. Round pools of light on the green poker tables alternated with hourglass shapes of exciting gloom, through which drink girls and change girls moved like white-legged witches. By the jazz-stand in the distance, belly dancers made their white hourglass shapes. The gamblers were thick and hunched down as mushrooms, all bald from agonizing over the fall of a card or a die or the dive of an ivory ball, while the Scarlet Women were like fields of poinsettia. — Harlan Ellison

Secure the hearts of the nation's menopausal millions, Eileen knew, and no jury would dare convict her. — Rupert Smith

Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. — Edmund Spenser