Angelakis Kiawah Quotes & Sayings

[P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely. — Andrew Solomon

Keeping this journal causes tension as much as it calms it. The writing busies my hands and occupies my mind, but there's something about the pen scratching against the thick textured paper that makes my words take on an uncomfortable weight. Online, words flow almost as quickly as thoughts without revision or purpose, the way they do when you're alone or with someone who's fallen in love with you. — Wayne Gladstone

I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer. — Erin Morgenstern

When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk. — Carol Loomis

Ours is a lank country
and on the naked edge of her knife
our frail flag burns. — Pablo Neruda

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school. — Amy Chua

The 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers. — Mary Ritter Beard

So many whys, whats, whens, whos. Why had Master hurt her so badly? What did it mean? When was this phase over? Who would tell her what to do next? — Lucian Bane

From their midst a broad-shouldered man stepped forth, past Longwick, who tried vainly to motion him back. He ran three strides toward me, and I took a deep, unbelieving breath of his scent just before he enfolded me in a bear hug. Despite the pain to my shoulder, I didn't struggle. I dropped my head on his shoulder, and let him support me, feeling safer than I had in years. Suddenly, it seemed as if everything would be all right, as if everything could be mended. Heart of the Pack was here and he never let us come to harm. — Robin Hobb

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room. — Erica Jong

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. — Herodotus

In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or today. — W. H. Auden

It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important. — Honor Raconteur

Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it! — Bill O'Reilly

Grandeur ... consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof. — Charles Kingsley