Astreint Quotes & Sayings

We stared at each other across a narrow space that was full of danger, that almost seemed to roar, like flame.

'Come,' he said. — James Baldwin

Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop. — Victor Klemperer

I don't look at polls. — Rick Scott

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss. — David Gerrold

Incredibly, there are people - smart people - who think a prim disdain for drama is somehow a sign of "good taste." It is more often the reverse: a lamentable insensitivity to the essence of the art, a failure to "get it" on the most essential level. It is more often a sign not of good taste but of artistic insecurity. Not knowing how far to go, the writer goes nowhere. Lifelessness is not a form of elegance you should pursue. — Stephen Koch

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality. — Henry David Thoreau

God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church. — Henry Blackaby