Armatemp Quotes & Sayings

He had hardly ever allowed himself the things that really gave him pleasure. Tradition and obligation had tyrannized over all his hours. — Millicent Bell

I'm terrified that my journey won't tie up all the loose ends nicely. Because this is a life, not just a story, and life doesn't always go the way stories tell you. — Holly Bourne

true love for a good woman is a great thing, Susan. It shapes many a rough fellow. — George Eliot

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger. — Herbert Hoover

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years. — Brian Eno

It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside. — D.H. Lawrence

I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually. — Terry Zwigoff

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book. — P.C. Cast

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing. — Jean Houston

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them. — Socrates

You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery of the past, even if that past has to be falsified to seem real. The act of recalling the past in what we write doesn't mean knowing the way it really was, but rather becoming the master of memories as they burn in the perilous instant of creation. — Raymond Federman