Artistbydayvillainbynight Quotes & Sayings

It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. They are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into higher spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still, and men of genius, who partake sometimes of each character, are rare also. Yes, on the whole , it is, perhaps, harder to be a great sinner than a great saint. — Arthur Machen

It's good Feng Shui.' 'What's that?' 'It's Chinese for throwing out your crap. — Mike Bennett

I do not need a reason to be angry with God. — Nicholas Sparks

I sometimes imagine I would like my ashes to be scattered in a library. But then the librarians would just have to come in early the next morning to sweep them up again, before the people got there. — Neil Gaiman

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk. — George A. Sheehan

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. — Alfred Adler

One of the awful secrets of seventeen is that it still has seven hiding inside it. Sometimes seven comes tumbling out, even when seventeen wants to be Grown-Up and proud. This is also one of the awful secrets of seventy. — Catherynne M Valente

I've flown from Seattle just to see you, and the way you look right now, it was really worth the journey. — E.L. James

We have accepted there is a big role for government to create a framework where businesses can grow in all parts of the country. — George Osborne

Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame. — Kathryn Minshew

How to stop procrastinating starts with believing you can overcome procrastination. — Robert Moment

Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up. — Allison Jones

If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted. — Tom Wigley

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. — Tom Waits

Holy Crap, Kaitriana you are one wicked Witch. — Heather Fleener