Barnbrook Gothick Quotes & Sayings

Language is froth on the surface of thought. — John McCarthy

One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad. — Albert Einstein

Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A brave, exquisite book. — Mary Kay Zuravleff

I don't think I am any different from other people. I have the same dreams. I want a family. I want a house. A car. Why shouldn't I want that? Everybody does. And when I have it, I want it all to work. — Erlend Loe

I couldn't see why it shouldn't be my one hundred dollars. — Walter Mosley

Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation. — Richard Appignanesi

Like forgiveness, it was not a thing once learned and then comfortably put aside but a matter of constant practice - to accept the notion of one's own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates. — Diana Gabaldon

Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out.
No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want? — Cassandra Clare

There is an endless range of parts I have not played. I would love to do a whole slew of period pieces. I also used to do a lot of stage work, and I would like to go back to that from time to time. — Mark Margolis

I don't make to-do lists, but if I did, today's would have gone something like this: 1. get drunk, 2. get laid, 3. go surfing (not necessarily in that order.) Noticeably absent from the list: get arrested. And yet here I am, spending my eighteenth birthday with my back against the wall of the Colonel's hunting cabin, two FBI agents prowling the dark with their guns drawn, both trying to get me to confess to the murder of my friend Preston DeWitt. — Paula Stokes

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right! — Glenn Hughes

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin. — Robert Sheckley

I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly. — Joyce Meyer

People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support. — Elizabeth Kata