Annees Quotes & Sayings

Exactly so!" called Skifr. "I daresay this tight-lipped Vansterman knows battle. How did you get that scar, my dove?"
"I was milking a reindeer and she fell on me," said Fror. "She was ever so sorry afterward, but the damage was done" And Brand wondered if he winked his misshapen eye.
"Truly a hero's mark, then," grunted Thorn, curling her lip.
Fror shrugged. "Someone must bring in the milk. — Joe Abercrombie

It is always reassuring to discover that great writers are as fallible as oneself. W.B. Yeats once failed to obtain an academic post in Dublin because he misspelt the word 'professor' on his application. — Terry Eagleton

Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.
[Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.] — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me. — Heikki Kovalainen

Liberty demands self-government, but not the right to interfere with others. — Bertrand Russell

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. — Gyorgy Ligeti

In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know. — Jami Attenberg

[ ... ] But then,
What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?
All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff
Until hard edges break into out path.
Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief?
In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief? — Jan Kochanowski

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it. — Beryl Markham

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers? — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Bullshit. You lied to me every single day. Were the nights a lie too? Am I just like all those other girls? Maybe I'd be better off with a new owner, at least I know when he fucks me I will hate him. Not like you. You made me love you then you wrecked me with it. Then you gave me back piece by piece every night only to take it all away over again in the morning. — Nashoda Rose

What did I do now?'
It was getting to the point where she didn't know any longer, but she was certain it couldn't be proper. 'Don't waste sugar,' she improvised.
'I'm not wasting it; I'm drinking it,' May countered. — Suzanne Enoch

But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness? — Philip Yancey

The eye is the jewel of the body. — Henry David Thoreau

A lot of brothers don't understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything. — Pearl Cleage

When your mind is clear, action is focused. — Lisa A. Mininni