Dentata Variegata Quotes & Sayings

Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways. — Rose Tremain

Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil. — Ambrose Bierce

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown

I am the biggest anachronism on Planet Earth. — Arthur C. Clarke

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way. — John Green

I love traveling around and talking to women in groups like the Girl Scouts, and being able to work with them is such an honor. For me, it's always about working really hard and being able to help other people, which is what I've done with both of my books. — Katherine Schwarzenegger

We know where we're going cause we know where we're from. — Bob Marley

But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus - mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy. — Raul Hilberg