Arcano Violin Quotes & Sayings

My theory was that readers just thought they cared nothing but the action; that really, although they didn't know it, they cared very little about the action. The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialog and description. The things they remembered, that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of his death he was trying to pick a paper clip off the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain on his face and his mouth was half open in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn't even hear death knock on the door. That damn little paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers. — Raymond Chandler

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale. — Claire Danes

Brimstone: ' ... I shall smite thee with my fightful blasting wand so that thy teeth shall drop out, thy skin shall wrinkle, thou shalt have boils on thy bottom and be subject to night sweats, ringing in the ears, falling sickness, flaking dandruff, arthritis, lumbago, uncontrollable dribbling, deafness, runny nose, and ingrowing toenails. Amen. — Herbie Brennan

The sky
Scorched by the sun,
Weeps
Fecund tears. — James Clavell

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious. — Steve Coogan

I like very little to talk. There are many things I cannot say, I can only feel them and dance them. — Micaela Flores Amaya

I am breathless, hopeless, and consumed. I now know that I am between balloons. — Kimberly Russell

Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks. — Andrew Jackson

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress. — Bruce Babbitt

I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect. — Clemence Poesy