Descensus Circa Quotes & Sayings

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing. — Zane Grey

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild. — David Gemmell

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. — Margaret Mitchell

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately. — Matthew Gray Gubler

This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away. — Jimmy Fallon

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is. — Aaron Belz

If God is good half the Bible is libel. — Michael R. Burch

It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she'd crash through the connecting door and ravish Hastings - and she was far from sure how she felt about him.
As she was reading the manuscript of The Bride of Larkspear — Sherry Thomas

Airplanes: essentially buses that fly, and hence have the potential to drop out of the sky at any moment, spreading your insides
which will no doubt become your outsides sometime during the collision
across whatever you happen to have been flying over. Since we were flying mainly over ocean, I was the sure sharks would appreciate our sacrifice. — Seanan McGuire

As a rule Uncle Giles took not the slightest interest in anyone or anything except himself and his own affairs - indeed was by this time all but incapable of absorbing even the smallest particle of information about others, unless such information had some immediate bearing on his own case. — Anthony Powell

Long years - " he sighs. "Again you found me." "Here," she murmurs. — Virginia Woolf

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process. — Annie Parisse

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. — Sam Neill

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on. — Eric Stoltz