Deir El Bahri Quotes & Sayings

She didn't fall, but oh, her heart went icy in her chest. She sat down hard upon the steps. Too numb to walk. Her heart was cold and white as chalk. — Patrick Rothfuss

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note. — William Billings

He sat down and played again that piece of Scriabin's that Lydia thought he played so badly, and as he began he had a sudden recollection of that stuffy, smoky cellar to which she had taken him, of those roughs he had made such friends with, and of the Russian woman, gaunt and gipsy-skinned, with her enormous eyes, who had sung those wild, barbaric songs with such a tragic abandon. Through the notes he struck he seemed to hear her raucous, harsh and yet deeply moving voice. Leslie Mason had a sensitive ear. — W. Somerset Maugham

My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone. — Jami Attenberg

The novelist uses facts to create a fiction about life. The pornographer uses sexual reality to create sexual illusion. — Marty Rubin

I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you — Niccolo Machiavelli

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film. — Sally Field

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense. — Ethan Hawke