Carriger County Quotes & Sayings

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. — Marty Feldman

But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound. — Boris Pasternak

Because your heart accelerates with the thrumming of the tympani and the brassy blast of the horn section; it keeps tempo, marks time, this junior-sized metronome in your chest, and your entire body pulsates with the rhythm of the music; you can't help but be carried away by it as you listen and take it all in. You are mesmerized, you are utterly fascinated. — John Rowell

A thick skin is a gift from God. — Konrad Adenauer

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete. — Nikki Reed

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. — George Borrow

He's probably their battle poet, too."
"You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?"
"No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy ... When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode. — Terry Pratchett

Knowledge as such can never be worthless. — Eraldo Banovac

From my village I see as much of the universe as you can see from earth, So my village is as big as any other land For I am the size of what I see, Not the size of my height. - Fernando Pessoa as Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep — Rabih Alameddine

My dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me. — Isobel Osbourne Field

It is as evil as we are positive...the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil. — Haruki Murakami