Canonero Belmont Quotes & Sayings

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash. — Norman Maclean

One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them. — Dick Winters

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too. — Virgil Miller Newton

Uniformity and Evolution are one. — Charles Lapworth

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not. For me, writing has little to do with thinking. I don't want to control the narrative. I listen to the rhythm of the words and dialogue and try to give the characters the space in which to say and do what they want without intervening too much. — Mary J. Miller

The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century - or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. Tall houses glowed goldenrod and carmine and eggshell blue, embellished with Rococo plasterwork and capped in roofs of uniform red. Baroque cupolas were the soft green of antique copper, and Gothic steeples stood ready to impale fallen angels. The wind carried the memory of magic, revolution, violins, and the cobbled lanes meandered like creeks. Thugs wore Motzart wigs and pushed chamber music on street corners, and marionettes hung in windows, making the whole city seem like a theater with unseen puppeteers crouched behind velvet. — Laini Taylor

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for. — Ayn Rand

Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. — Heinrich Heine

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have. — John Patrick Hickey

Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away. — Paulo Coelho

Nonsense, my good man! What we lose in vigor, we only gain in wisdom. — James Kennedy