Colchicum Quotes & Sayings

It's all done by smoke and mirrors ... — Anne Brooke

Reading only a bit of a great book (e.g., Plato's Republic) is like getting engaged but never marrying. The initial experience is pleasurable but can become frustrating if prolonged. — John Reynolds

The whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity. — Alan Watts

When a watch is broken you take it apart to analyze what is wrong with it. When a technique does not work, if you analyze it carefully you can always find out what is wrong. — Koichi Tohei

The prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders encompasses intervening in the early years — James M. Kauffman

But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story of a people and a world through the centuries, the millennia. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I think Ive done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I havent yet done. When I was younger I thought maybe Id reached that peak. But Im 86 now, and if I make it through to next month, Ill be 87. And now I know it can never be perfect, it can never be exactly what it should be, so you got to keep going further, getting better. — B.B. King

Don't be silly," she said. "I don't want us to chase people with scissors. And I don't want us to bite them. That's assault. All I want to do is steal their stuff."
There was a pause.
"Comparatively, its legal," Kami said defensively.
"Stealing in the name of justice is okay," Jared put in. "We'd be like Robin Hood. Steal from the rich, punch them in the face. I'm pretty sure that's how the saying goes. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Bravery is good when the cause is good. — Bernhard Schlink

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in. — Vinnie Jones

I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began. — Scott Lynch

I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages. — Miriam Toews

I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.' — Chris Van Allsburg

He found it difficult to discuss any of his activities, which seemed to him no more than the hole through which he was falling. — Peter Ackroyd

No matter what happens in your life ... or where its roads lead you,
Always try to keep positive ...
It'll will get you everywhere! — Timothy Pina