Chiss Ascendancy Quotes & Sayings

A Wyvern's body is different from the body of a young girl in several major respects. First, it has wings, which most young girls do not (there are exceptions). Second, it has a very long, thick tail, which some young girls may have, but those who find themselves so lucky keep them well hidden. Let us just say, there is a reason some ladies wore bustles in times gone by! Third, it weighs about as much as a tugboat carrying several horses and at least one boulder. There are girls who weigh that much, but as a rule, they are likely to be frost giants. Do not trouble such folk with asking after the time or why their shoes do not fit so well. — Catherynne M Valente

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair. — David Sedaris

I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about. — Kara Swisher

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back. — Leon Leonwood Bean

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.
But you have to choose: live or tell. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn ... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker. — Jean-Paul Marat

They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown - their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them. — James K. Morrow

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen. — Sharon Weil

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining. — Frederick Tilney

It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang. — Tom Waits

Crackers are short on sparkle. — Margaret Mitchell

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life. — Allison Williams