Cantilena Quotes & Sayings

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you? — Willa Cather

Tomorrow we can go for a walk in the park, hold hands and blow bubbles. — Ronald Ragan

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done. — Jeff Lemire

Jack stood in the dining room just outside the batwing doors leading into the Colorado Lounge, his head cocked, listening. He was smiling faintly. Around him, he could hear the Overlook Hotel coming to life. It — Stephen King

But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled. — Kim Harrison

Whenever you are seeking for too long, it is because you are rushing. Whenever you are not finding, it is because you don't want to seek. — Angelos Ioannis

Yeah, I don't want to get to the point when I don't need you. — Cassie Mae

Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide. — Malala Yousafzai

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things. — Douglas Coupland

I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them. — Marie Rutkoski

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier? — Arlie Russell Hochschild

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life. — W. Somerset Maugham

Gratitude is the key to unlocking the door to abundance. — Debasish Mridha