Czech Brothers Quotes & Sayings

Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on. — Ursula K. Le Guin

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis. — Colin Meloy

I just learnt that I don't have to love it to know what I'm doing. It requires practice not passion. — O.E. Boroni

Now I can see myself married, and I can see myself having my own family. With you. And that's the best gift I could ever have. — J. Lynn

I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days. They don't require that I pretend to know them all, nor do they urge me to become one of the "professional book-handlers" ... who greedily collect books but do not read them ... — Alberto Manguel

I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood. — Cory Booker

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated. — Jack White

You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world. — Elizabeth Coleman

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in. — Terry Pratchett

There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between. — Samantha Leahy

Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of the whole post-impressionist period, by which I mean that before them Bonnard, Vuillard, & Seurat are my favourite painters of that time. — Edward Gorey

There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you ... When it works, baby, you've got wings. — Keith Richards

Never invest in a business you don't understand. — Warren Buffett

Like calls to like. — Richelle Mead

As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family. — KRS-One