Bligent Quotes & Sayings

You cannot teach somebody how to relate to the kids, they have to come with it. — Martin Haberman

Lils, you've barely even planned Sneak yet. Give it time. He'll get there."
"He did ask me out on Saturday."
"OMG, you two are totally getting married and having a litter of babies. Ooh, what if that's literally true?"
-Scout and Lily about werewolf Jason — Chloe Neill

You can't change what has already happened. But you choose what to do next. Which means that you only cross over to the dark side if you choose to do it. — Jim Butcher

If it doesn't happen to you, it doesn't happen at all. — John Green

I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16. — Neil Cross

Why is it so hard, the sweetness of the heart of the cherry?
Is it because it must die or because it must carry on? — Pablo Neruda

We can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face. — Barack Obama

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant. — Yann Martel

You can mean more than one.
You can mean thousands.
I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you.
I'll pretend you can hear me.
But it's no good, because I know you can't. — Margaret Atwood

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one. — Joey McIntyre

True artists, whatever smiling faces they may show you, are obsessive, driven people
whether driven by some mania or driven by some high, noble vision need not presently concern us. Anyone who has worked both as artist and as professor can tell you, that he works differently in his two styles. No one is more careful, more scrupulously honest, devoted to his personal vision of the ideal, than a good professor trying to write a book about the Gilgamesh. He may write far into the night, he may avoid parties, he may feel pangs of guilt about having spent too little time with his family. Nevertheless, his work is no more like an artist's work than the work of a first-class accountant is like that of an athlete contending for a championship. — John Gardner

There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future. — Laszlo Nemes

It's harder starting over,
than never to have changed — Linkin Park