Connemara Library Quotes & Sayings

There are times," Leofric grumbled, "when you are an earsling." An earsling was something that had dropped out of a creature's backside and was one of Leofric's favourite insults. We were friends. — Bernard Cornwell

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big — Kurt Vonnegut

Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel. — Alexis Hall

I never wanted to be you. I saw what the weight of being the heir did to you. And I'm not talking about what our mother did to you. I'm talking about the mantle of responsibility thrust upon you. Hell at fourteen you practically ran the castle. God knows our father never did. And all Mother wanted to do was throw one grand party after another." /"Well, somebody had to take responsibility. The place was falling apart."

. — Magda Alexander

The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite. — Elliott Abrams

Knowing your limits is a strength, not a weakness. — Kim Harrison

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations. — Bill Brandt

Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations. — Stan Lee

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time. — Richard Henry Stoddard

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever. — Alexandre Dumas

Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be present to witness the death of everything and I do think it's odd but that doesnt mean it's not so. Someone has to be here. — Cormac McCarthy

Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now. — Ben Stein

The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over
this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success. — Simone De Beauvoir

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. — Whittaker Chambers

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show. — James Stewart