Arcellus Quotes & Sayings

The storm transforms the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

THOMAS TUSSER. 1523-1580. Moral Reflections on the Wind. Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good. {95} — Various

For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem. — David Schnarch

I wish to descend in the social scale.
High society is low society.
I am a social climber
climbing downward
And the descent is difficult.
(- Junkman's Obbligato) — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sometimes the problem is recognizing what's right in front of you, because what might look like a huge stone, blocking your way, is realy a ladder leading to all new heights, you just have to find the right hand holds. — S.L. Rogers

But for the moment it was just a pattern of sensory impressions painted on the screen of her memory, not soaked in yet, not understood, not even granted the dignity of having really happened. — Neal Stephenson

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson

As we passed this living cruelty, I shuddered in momentarily isolation and then let out an audible gasp at what I saw. They were hanging from trees! Some shaking violently, with their intestines hanging out of their bodies! Those who were still partly alive were screaming with pain, and wriggling on the branches trying to get off the ropes ... some had fallen off the branches of the trees, they were crawling along the ground, and towards us. — Alfred Nestor

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does. — Mahatma Gandhi

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny

I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. — John Malkovich

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful. — Catherine O'Hara

I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate. — Samuel R. Delany