Dagnall Church Quotes & Sayings

I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. — Joseph Conrad

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments. — Dana Spiotta

Life at the edge of the world, it was felt, could go on forever. — David Amerland

The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland. We appeared in different parts of the world at the same time. Each group was as much a part of their environment as the other animals and plants of the region. — Eliot Cowan

There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can't vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world. — Matthew Hussey

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. — Wynton Marsalis

He was a tyrant who had enslaved and murdered the elves and betrayed his own people. [...] Emperor Qalduun had existed over a thousand years ago and had been forgotten by no one except for the humans, who liked to pretend none of it had even happened. It was hardly shocking that none of Elbryn's human caretakers would have spoken to him about Qalduun. Humans were notorious for covering up history rather than learning from it. — Ash Gray

Everything transitory is but an image. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth! — Melina Marchetta