Archers Afield Quotes & Sayings

By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics. — Susanna Kaysen

When I'd first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior.
-flesh and the mirror — Angela Carter

She stepped back and frowned at me. "Open it."
"Me?" I felt sure she was picking on me because I was the only enslaved god she had. "I'm not Hermes! I'm not even Valdez!"
"Try."
As if that were a simple request! I attempted to get my fingertips under the edge and prise it open. I spread my arms and yelled the standard magic words: MELLON! SHAZAM! SESAME STREET! None of these worked. At last I tried my infallible ace in the hole. I sang 'Love Is an Open Door' from the Frozen soundtrack. Even this failed.
"Impossible!" I cried. "This door has no taste in music! — Rick Riordan

One of my first jobs was in Italy and that's where I saw cocaine for the first time. There was a murder in our group that weekend. I decided then and there that I would never do drugs. I have anxiety attacks, so there's no way I could do them. — Linda Evangelista

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities ... — Robert Frost

If a brokenhearted mother could sing, I could not remain silent. — Beth Moore

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow

The intention makes the crime. — Aristotle.

A part of me smiled, but it wasn't my mouth. - Jonathan — C.D. Reiss

Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she'd hook me up with a clue — Ilona Andrews

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing ... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. — Paul Michael Glaser

The balance of power had shifted in ways that none of us yet understood. There was tension in the air. It was a moment of great opportunity, and greater danger. — Jesse Andrews

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. — Alfred North Whitehead

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched. — Charlie Pierce