Belbol Quotes & Sayings

It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one. — Kurt Vonnegut

"One of the governor's concerns: "This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing?" — John Hickenlooper

At times I like it when he is just a deep echo, one utterance after another filling every crevice of the room, a voice that sounds like it's never been an infant's whimper, a boy's whisper, a young man's mumble, a voice that speaks as if every word it has ever uttered has always been and will always be for me. — Edwidge Danticat

The wind played in her hair. The moon looked down from its throne in the royal purple sky and smiled at her. The night was brighter than she'd ever seen before, a velvet carpet strewn with stars that winked diamond bright and sang faint ice-cold snatches of song, of distant journeys and enchantments in other realms. The magic in the land nourished parts of her that had been crippled and half dead. She felt stronger, freer and wilder than she ever had before. She leaped high and reached up to tickle the edge of the moon, who laughed in delight. — Thea Harrison

The most calamitous failures of prediction usually have a lot in common. We focus on those signals that tell a story about the world as we would like it to be, not how it really is. We ignore the risks that are hardest to measure, even when they pose the greatest threats to our well-being. We make approximations and assumptions about the world that are much cruder than we realize. We abhor uncertainty, even when it is an irreducible part of the problem we are trying to solve. — Nate Silver

Last year I spoke about Clean India and open defecation, it was criticised then but that has been the main point with which the government has touched the lives of the people. — Narendra Modi

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. — Josh Billings

You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you've got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS. — Pat Robertson

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. — Samuel L. Jackson

When I don't fancy a man's eyes, I put an arrow through one. — George R R Martin

Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority. — Martin Luther