Barsukov In Old Quotes & Sayings

But age became him as it did the oaks and the cedars. — Thomas Burnett Swann

Was there anything more inspiring than being able to look up and see oneself surrounded by thousands of books all the way to the ceiling three stories above? — Elizabeth Camden

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it. — Joe Abercrombie

The essence of love is concern. — Nirmala Srivastava

All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public. — Hunter S. Thompson

Life is the childhood of immortality. — Daniel A. Poling

What was the difference between a husband and a lover?
If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his wife forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.
If Po were her lover, would she feel captured, cornered into a sense of forever? Or would she still have the freedom that sprang from herself? — Kristin Cashore

I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business. — Anthony Holden

Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast. — Robert Osborne

If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos. — Alfred Rosenberg

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. — Thomas Jefferson

You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you. — Robin LaFevers

It's still strange. — Arthur K. Flam

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep. — Wendell Phillips