Arganon Quotes & Sayings

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. — Jim Harrison

We know now that most birth deformities result from the consanguinity of the parents."
"From the what?" asked Desdemona.
"From families intermarrying."
Desdemona went white.
"Causes all kinds of problems. Imbecility. Hemophilia. Look at the Romanovs. Look at any royal family. Mutants, all of them. — Jeffrey Eugenides

A raznochinets needs no memory - it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam

What sort of God would put us here in this goddamned, stinking slaughterhouse of a world? — William Lindsay Gresham

Our prayers are the shadows of mercy. — Charles Spurgeon

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy. — Edward Abbey

As an actor, I'm always looking for scripts that I relate to, in some way, and things that are interesting and different. If it's combining romance and action, I'm not missing out on anything. I get to do it all. — Liam Hemsworth

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on. — Lynne Rae Perkins

His fingertips felt like whispers, telling my skin secrets. — Karina Halle

He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men. — Bernard Cornwell

I remember kids used to give me a penny for drawing them a horse. I loved horses, but I couldn't have one, so I would draw a horse for myself. I would make it food and a blanket for it to wear and a place to live. — Jan Brett

Dogs are like that, I guess - they know how to fix you without ever saying a word. — Caroline George