Cearadactylus Quotes & Sayings

Rose. The longer you control a man, the more likely they'll leave you. Is that what you want? To be alone and miserable for the rest of your life?" "I don't know. You're pretty miserable, Mother, and you're married. — Krista Ritchie

Time...a maniac scattering dust. — Alfred Tennyson

He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions. — Erwin Rommel

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I did discover that if you're interested in low wages, a bookstore ranks below retail clothing sales, except the hours are worse. — Sue Grafton

Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you. — Diana Gabaldon

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons. — Princess Diana

At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made. — Stephen Boss

Don't fear. You will always have something to struggle for, even if it is beauty or joy. — Ben Okri

Them again, and all would change to dull reality
the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds
the rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep- bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy
and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all thy other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard
while the lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's heavy sobs. Lastly, she pictured to herself — Lewis Carroll

When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing? — Hermann Von Helmholtz

Where'd you get that lighter?" she demanded.
"Frida," Dan said, closing it. "She left it behind. Remember how she was always talking about outdoorsy stuff? She said she kept a water-resistant lighter on her at all times, in case she needed emergency fire."
There was a short beat of silence in the dumpster.
"Huh," said Dan. "Except probably now. — Clifford Riley

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion. — H.L. Mencken

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness. — Moses Ibn Ezra