Btinternet Quotes & Sayings

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. — Victor Borge

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side. — Mordecai Richler

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

named for a man who became a saint but worked as a tax collector. — Matthew Minicucci

Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of sound; for days

it trembles, liquid to the mind,
then falls:
mere denotation
dimming the undertow of language. — John Burnside

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible. — Shinya Yamanaka

Norns are incredible architects. They simply use death as a building block. Andacellus, Viddion marah. — Taylor Grace

More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give. — Gerry Geek

It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they had made him go into the room and left him alone there, where he had ten different ways of killing himself. At the same time, though, he asked himself, this time looking at it from his own point of view, what reason he could have to do so. Because those two were sitting there in the next room and had taken his breakfast, perhaps? — Franz Kafka

I learned to move silently in the background, a dirty, neglected little kid with no voice, no wants, and who made no trouble so as not to call the wrath of the eight or so tweaking adults who lived there down on me. I drifted, faded, and became a listless, ghostlike scavenger who took what she could get. I lived mostly in my head and for a while actually convinced myself that I was a survivor of one of those catastrophic earthquakes or tornadoes I used to see on the Weather Channel,a dazed, bewildered, and emotionless girl picking her way through an endless landscape of foul and stinking rubble to try and come out on the other side. — Laura Wiess

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

Pick a truth that blesses your life! — Toba Beta