Ashry Natural Quotes & Sayings

A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, "This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!" — Elizabeth Gilbert

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do. — Neil Gaiman

This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the more desperately important now that she was almost certain, in her innermost heart, that her trip was a failure. Her attitude was not an astonishing one, since like many others she conceived of her life as separate from herself; the road was laid out always a little ahead of her by scared hands, and she walked down it without a question. This road, which was her life, would go on existing after her death, even as her death existed while she still lived. — Jane Bowles

Refuse to let go of your imagination. It is what inspires us to make our dreams, into reality. — K.D. Delgado

The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible representation of the Creator (whatever that word means to each person) is so absurd as to border on delusional. — Dave Champion

Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in. — Orson Scott Card

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc. — Guy Pearce

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. — Charles Simmons

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others. — Joseph Conrad

The only problem they had ... was in drawing the fine differences between war-mass murder of people wearing a uniform not your own; justifiable loss-mass murder of your own troops, but with substantial gains; and criminal negligence-mass murder of your own troops, without appreciable benefit. — Richard K. Morgan

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound. — David Longstreth

A foreign country remains foreign until you find people near and dear to you there. — Mikhail Shishkin