Dechentreiter Quotes & Sayings

It is important to give just the right instructions. He thinks in loopholes. — N.K. Jemisin

Russia might be characterized as a wicked beast of a nation, but it was a very large beast, and sometimes it thrashed its tail. — Alan Furst

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives. — Laurie Foos

We used to have a family game, invented by my sister and a friend of hers - it was called 'Agatha's Husbands'. The idea was that they picked out two or at the most three of the most repellent looking strangers in a room, and it was then put to me that i had to choose one of them as a husband, on pain of death or slow torture by the Chinese.
'now then, Agatha, which will you have - the fat young one with pimples, and the scurfy head, or that black one like a gorilla with the bulging eyes?'
'Oh I can't - they're so awful.'
'You must - it's got to be one of them. Or else red hot needles and water torture.'
'Oh dear, then the gorilla. — Agatha Christie

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The classical Indian sages wrote that there are three factors which indicate whether a soul has been blessed with the highest and most auspicious luck in the universe:
1. To have been born a human being, capable of concious inquiry.
2. To have been born - or to have developed - a yearning to understand the nature of the universe.
3. To have found a living spiritual master. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There's more than one path to immortality. — Maria Dahvana Headley

I couldn't even see that woman because I have blinders on when you are around, and every single thought in my head is about you. — Carolyn Brown