Contarelli Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't built for running away from monsters. I wanted desperately to run toward them
track them down, kill them. Luckily, I was used to restraining myself, used to acting human even when I wasn't, and the human part of my brain reminded me that right now, preternatural beasties weren't exactly my primary concern. Someone had made a strong attempt at killing me this morning ... — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power. — Don DeLillo

It's important to feel settled and balanced in life, and that has been tough for me to do. — Kyle Shewfelt

Who is it that can tell me who I am? — William Shakespeare

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it
else it is none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and don't if you don't want to be. Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylised and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn. Open your mind to every form of beauty. — Constance Spry

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out. — Shirley Manson

We can stage our own act on the planet-build our cities on its plains, dam its rivers, plant its topsoils-but our meaningful activity scarcely covers the terrain. We do not use the songbirds, for instance. We do not eat many of them; we cannot befriend them; we cannot persuade them to eat more mosquitoes or plant fewer weed seeds. We can only witness them-whoever they are. If we were not here, they would be songbirds falling in the forest. If we were not here, material events like the passage of seasons would lack even the meager meanings we are able to muster for them. The show would play to an empty house, as do all those falling stars which fall in the daytime. That is why I take walks: to keep an eye on things. — Annie Dillard

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. — Ruth Benedict

Okay. Let's go to the pool. I'll drop a rock in it and we'll see which one of you sinks faster "

"I can rip your heart out of your chest, human"

[...] "You already have, My Lady. — Joey W. Hill

cream. I wonder who has sent it, and where from. I wonder — Tracy Rees

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump. — Joyce Meyer

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless. — Malcolm Gladwell