Choughs Quotes & Sayings

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. — Edith Sitwell

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me. — Henry Rollins

Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. — Jeanette Winterson

With the sun rising on the distant sea horizon, she could almost forget the braying of the donkeys. — Alexandra Brenton

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference. — Amit Kalantri

He clutched to these names, repeating each one in his head, holding them like precious gemstones. The names mattered. The men mattered. — Brandon Sanderson

Death was sweetened for the martyrs by the promise of 72 virgins waiting in paradise. She had researched the 72 virgins. The number wasn't actually in the Quran but in the Hadith 2687, collected in the Book of Sunan. The Quran, in Sura 56, was vague on the point. And theirs shall be the dark-eyed houris, chaste as hidden pearls ... A new analysis translated houris from the Aramaic dialect Syriac as "white raisins", which put everything in a very different light. — Leslie Cockburn