Bedrich Reicin Quotes & Sayings

The clockwork men and women fated to maneuver the oars twenty-four hours per day until the ship reached its destination had turned their silent voices to song as they bent their backs to row. They sang not in any human language but in the secret language of the mechanicals. A shanty sung in the click-tick-click of clockwork bodies, the crash of tapped feet, the clatter of metal hands gripping banded wooden spars. — Ian Tregillis

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that. — David Sedaris

Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom. — Madeleine L'Engle

We tell lies when we are afraid ... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. — Tad Williams

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Writing is alot like religion, you need to have faith. — L.A. Jones

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both. — Ruta Sepetys

A man has perished; his corpse is dust,
and his people have passed from the land;
it is a book which makes him remembered
in the mouth of a speaker.
More excellent is a [papyrus] roll than a built house,
than a chapel in the west.
It is better than an established villa,
than a stela in a temple... — Anonymous

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them. — Paul Cezanne

Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it. — Thomas Paine

Maintain your speed no matter what happens! For the tikbalang shall chase you
I regret to say ... to the ends of the earth! — Arnold Arre

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel

People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up. — Ernest Cline