Crikey Club Quotes & Sayings

Her heart split in two. She was an animal. A killer and a predator.
The screams turned to howls.
Sad and broken howls.
Haunting and furious howls. — Marissa Meyer

We are all on the same road, some ahead of us and some behind. We do not always recognize ourselves as being among those who are struggling farther back, and misunderstand, scorn, and even persecute the ones who move ahead of us. History is littered with such as these: eccentrics, geniuses, idealists among those most noticeable. These change the world by force, though the change most often does not take place during their own time, they are so far ahead of it and therefore so rarely understood. — Nell Gavin

Love is the most powerful catalyst. It can change a heart and the world. — Debasish Mridha

When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with. — Christophe Agou

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values. — Sathya Sai Baba

We even save a few lives, but only a fraction of the lives that need to be saved. Soon, we will leave and when we leave there will be nothing to take our place. The meningitis epidemic, cholera, measles, typhoid fever, all preventable diseases, will return and continue as before. The only solution is a political solution, national public health programs, responsible corporations who reap only as much as they sow. Shell Oil with a conscience. Nigeria doesn't need us. What we do here is less than nothing. We take the pressure off the powers that be, making it easier for those who plunder to keep on plundering. This is the humanitarian aid paradox. — Pamela Grim

The set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way. — William Carlos Williams

Give me terror.
Flash.
Give me panic.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk

Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman ... — Victor Hugo

In my dreams I ran paths walled with high hedges. Always the leaves brushing me like laughter. Always the long night. — M. Pierce

Dimitri? She tried not to influence him. It was their decision together, not just hers. She knew he would listen with an open mind to her reasons and she wanted to be able to do the same for him.
His laughter was soft in her mind, filling her with an odd tingling sensation, with a small rush of heat. Skyler.
That was it. Her name. She sent him a look from under her lashes, one she usually reserved for Josef. Are you mocking me?
Teasing you. Just a little. We're getting the wolf pups. How could I possibly say no to a gift like that? You would never stop arguing with me.
Discussing. I was totally prepared to be reasonable and listen to you and then show you all the reasons you were absolutely wrong if you disagreed.
Dimitri burst out laughing. — Christine Feehan

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets. — Mason Cooley

No emotion is more squirmy than feeling embarrassed for someone else — Megan McCafferty

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. — Rebecca Harding Davis

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe. — Pankaj Mishra