Chaudron Dessin Quotes & Sayings

A heavy wooden door waited at the end of the staircase, blocking all sound from beyond. Aurora stared at it. She had not walked through it in years, not since her father decided that even the rest of the castle was unsafe for her. It was longer than years now. Lifetimes. The door had marked the way out, the way to freedom, for her whole quiet little life. What was it now? — Rhiannon Thomas

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises. — Orrin Woodward

It was to do with the glazed look that always comes over me when faced with somebody who has offended or hurt me and yet whose approval I want. — Olivia Sudjic

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle.

So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that. — Sarah Stillman

The fantasy of justice is more interesting than the fantasy of fairies, and truly more fantastic. — Terry Pratchett

At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book ... I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ... So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison. — Rheta Childe Dorr

A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours — Andrei Sakharov

The landings below the bridge were perfect alcoves for conspiracy. — Christopher Moore

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make ... pure spirits more pure. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. — Isabel Allende

God has to be a sadist to give people life. — Hitomi Kanehara

I've never done this when it was an act of love. — Dorothy Garlock

And thus the (Christmas) evening passes, in a strain of rational good will and cheerfulness, doing more to awaken the sympathies of every member of the party in behalf of his neighbor, and to perpetuate their good feeling during the ensuing year, than half the homilies that have ever been written, by half the Divines that have ever lived. — Charles Dickens