Circulando Quotes & Sayings

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. — Thomas Carlyle

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. — Julie Burchill

Duty,sacrifice, they mean something.
Eat bitter taste sweet — Rick Riordan

I figured if you're a man who knows his books, you can deal with the literary types who come out when the moon is full. — Ivan Doig

While he slept the world spun on, changed, situations altered and grew more complex, left him more inadequate to deal with them. — William Gay

I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did some things I'm not proud of. — Beth Riesgraf

How quick, brutal, and fragile is life. You are born, you live a few years in wild hope, then you are dragged back into the night. You might have breathed on a little longer, had you not dared think yourself a human creature instead of an engine of muscle and bone. — Donna Gillespie

Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. The dentist is selling wine through the mail. — Anthony Doerr

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.' — Adrian McKinty

I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush. — Anthony Browne

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is. — Niall Ferguson