Atlantis Rising Quotes & Sayings

Serafina, Ava, Ling, and Becca swam inside. Neela followed them, but at the very last second, shield. "I can't," she said. "Once I go in, there's no way out again. This is real. You're real. All this time, a part of me was hoping you were only a dream."

The witch cocked her head. "Only a dream?" she said mockingly. "Long ago, a great mage dreamed of stealing the gods' powers. Abbadon was born of that dream. Atlantis died because of it. Now, because of a new dreamer, all the waters of the world may fall. There is nothing more real than a dream." She nodded at the waters behind Neela. Silt was rising in the distance, a great deal of it. "The merman Traho knows this. He's coming. If you do not believe me, perhaps he can convince you. — Jennifer Donnelly

The guy said industry slang for flight attendant was Space Waitress. Or Air Mattress. — Chuck Palahniuk

Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science major, they write. You think you want to go to the fanciest school you can. You don't. — Malcolm Gladwell

Ian was too Captain America for my taste. — Gloria Craw

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11. — Wyclef Jean

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world. — Lev Grossman

Slippery stages were the terror of my life. — Fred Astaire

Those two little words
says you
are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you who says it. You. And what do you know? — J. Mark Bertrand

It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television's exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens instead of turning pages. Big corporations like car manufacturers were pulling their advertising dollars out of print and spending them on the airwaves. Magazines were bleeding ad pages and readers, and editors scrambled to balance budgets by retooling audiences. — Debbie Nathan

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing. — Richard Hamming

A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it. — David DuChemin

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. — Mitch Hedberg

If winter were a person, I would kill them. I would go to jail for sunshine, birds singing and the smell of fresh cut grass hmm fresh cut grass. — Sonya Watson

They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out. — China Mieville

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction. — Daniel Woodrell