Avid Success Quotes & Sayings

I can hear other things, too. Before you came around, I had no idea a man could make a girl scream like that. Reyes seems very talented. — Darynda Jones

Parallel lines meet in eternity but
Parallel lives meet for tea — Gary Gach

I was seized at once with a profound fascination, a burning thirst to learn, to immerse myself totally, to melt away, to become as one with this foreign universe. To know it as if I had been born and raised there, begun life there. I wanted to learn the language, I wanted to read the books, I wanted to penetrate every nook and cranny.
It was a kind of malady, a dangerous weakness, because I also realized that these civilizations are so enormous, so rich, complex, and varied, that getting to know even a fragment of one of them, a mere scrap, would require devoting one's whole life to the enterprise. Cultures are edifices with countless rooms, corridors, balconies, and attics, all arranged, furthermore, into such twisting, turning labyrinths, that if you enter one of them, there is no exit, no retreat, no turning back. To become a Hindu scholar, a Sinologist, an Arabist, or a Hebraist is a lofty all-consuming pursuit, leaving no space or time for anything else. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break. — Kimberly Novosel

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for. — David James Duncan

The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead. — Ben Aaronovitch

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea ... of what to do. — Diana Vreeland

As he waited for her, he braced himself for the sight of her, ready to turn out the light as soon as she reached her bed.
But when Daniela came in, she wasn't wearing her nightgown. She returned from the bathroom in a bath towel. And then she locked the door behind her and dropped the towel. Drops of water glistened on her naked skin as if she'd been painted with diamonds.
"Christ," he breathed. — Dana Marton

A blanket could be used as a lovely rug, a rug that just so happens to be covering a large hole, you should really feel this rug! — Nicole McKay

It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash. — Stephen King

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children. — Joan Didion

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible. — Greg Gutfeld