Ashinoko Skyline Quotes & Sayings

If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually. — Echo Bodine

Octokongs," I pronounced grimly. "Why did it have to be octokongs? — Jim Butcher

[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands. — William Faulkner

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere. — Geoffrey Wood

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is. — David Platt

But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks. — Rick Bayan

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. — Lea DeLaria

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade. — Charles Durning

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. — Theodor Reik

I come from a country where you don't wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state. — Elle Macpherson

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp