Boiereasca Quotes & Sayings

The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home
and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries. — Rolf Potts

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship. — Charles Caleb Colton

People will eat more salad if there's a chance the next bite will contain a toasted nut. — Jennifer Reese

The handshake got a third arm as Blake entered and joined in. This was magic for Beckett, pure and simple. The world slowed down, and his cares melted away as he looked from face to face. He loved these men so fiercely, it'd probably scare them if they knew. — Debra Anastasia

So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it. — Tommy Lee

If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do. — Stephen Richards

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. — Pierre Janet

The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. — Anonymous

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it. — E. M. Forster

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! — Laurence Sterne

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. — Charles Dickens

If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite prepared to accept it - even though I don't personally believe it is possible. — Alastair Reynolds

Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father. — Thomas Brooks

Whether it was the power of suggestion or whether her eyes really hadn't deceived her, I began noticing too that my face was occasionally going rogue the rest of the afternoon, smiling when I had little reason to smile. Maybe my facial nerves were developing a neurological condition; I resolved to keep a close eye on it. — Cary Attwell