Clobbered Porcelain Quotes & Sayings

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. — O. Henry

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that's it. Amen. — Gary Player

Fuck love, fuck Florida, Fuck Kit Isley and his prettier-than-me girlfriend. — Tarryn Fisher

Who Stole the Tarts? — Lewis Carroll

We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a herd of bodies/until one becomes home./Moments sweep past. The grass bends/then learns again to stand. — Tracy K. Smith

This, she thought inanely, is the part where I am supposed to run. Oh, and that screaming thing — Jacquelyn Frank

This saying is both true and terse:
There's nothing bad but might be worse. — Thornton Burgess

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one. — Diana Wynne Jones

I think back to my dream of the boy, because in it I find solace. I like that word. I'm going to make it my word of the year. There is just something about that boy that makes me feel like I belong. Belong. Long to be. Weird word, but semantics aside, it is up there with solace. — Melina Marchetta

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. — Deepak Chopra

The world is full of bad men, but if you are prepared, and if you are STRONG, then you cannot be taken off guard, and you will not be scared. And when they DO come to your door in the middle of the night and you are there to greet them with all the light there is inside you, all the strength, they are the ones who will run for the shadows. And I've SEEN it. — Nickolas Butler

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. — Jack London

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound — Edgar Allan Poe