Bucolic Work Quotes & Sayings

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler? — Terry Pratchett

To join the makers of the world is always to feel at least a little more self reliant, a little more omnicompetent. For everyone to bake his own bread or brew his own beer is, we're told, inefficient, and by the usual measures it probably is ... But though it is certainly cheaper and easier to rely on untold, unseen others to provide for our everyday needs, to live that way comes at a price, not least to our sense of competence and independence. We prize these virtues, and yet they have absolutely nothing to do with the efficiencies of modern consumer capitalism. Except perhaps to suggest that there might be some problems with modern consumer capitalism. — Michael Pollan

The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another. — Tom Tryon

Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it. — Deanna Raybourn

Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

NAMING YOUR STORIES Identify your mind's favorite stories, then — Russ Harris

Jokes, secrets, complicities; a glance here, a word there: that is their way of being together, of being apart. — J.M. Coetzee

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal. — Joan Didion

Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give. — Anne-Rae Vasquez

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought. — Ken Follett

Sutures of lightning tightened the edges of the sky. — T. J. MacGregor