Bellmans Quotes & Sayings

Fingerprint, he writes. A map to mark the spaces you've inhabited. A map you make yourself, quadrant by quadrant, inch by inch, until the landscape of your life looks like a vast and unexplored terrain. Here there be monsters, it will say. — Amber Sparks

The Christian's hope is based not on our unsettling feelings of joy in Christ, but on Christ himself. — Tony Reinke

Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go. — Terry Pratchett

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love. — Lily King

I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real life, so that's where you have to delve into and do all the research. But, you have to find something likable in the character. — Jamie Dornan

I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. — John Buchan

I do hope you'll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who's heard that books exist, I'm afraid I go off like a bottle of warm beer. — George Orwell

Patience is learning to take a deep breath while you're exhaling — Josh Stern

There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy. — Romola Garai

You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs ... — Anthony Scaramucci

Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires. — Bill Toomey

The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it. — Swami Satchidananda

Never let someone dim your light, simply because it's shining in their eyes — Fuel

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band. — Bruce Springsteen

Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

"Yes, they would," Pyotr said mysteriously. He had been walking a couple of steps ahead of Kate, but now he dropped back and, without any warning, slung an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close to his side. "But why you would want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl. — Anne Tyler