Devenish Island Quotes & Sayings

I was taught to deceive by a great deceiver. Jenny will embrace me as a good man. Just as you did...before tonight. — Ken Cruickshank

She surrounded him. Wet, hot. Indescribable. Spasms rocked her, and she lost herself in their rhythm, riding him so fast she was nothing but a blur. But as much as he wished it would never end, no times tables and no images of grungy linoleum floors could keep the flood of her orgasm from inciting his own. — Cari Quinn

I AM RESTLESS
AM restless. I am athirst for far-away things.
My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.
O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
I am eager and wakeful, I am a stranger in a strange land.
Thy breath comes to me whispering an impossible hope.
Thy tongue is known to my heart as its very own.
O Far-to-seek, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that I know not the way, that I have not the winged horse.
I am listless, I am a wanderer in my heart.
In the sunny haze of the languid hours, what vast vision of thine takes shape in the blue of the sky!
O Farthest end, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that the gates are shut everywhere in the house where I dwell alone! — Rabindranath Tagore

Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There's nowhere to go. There's nothing else to be. There's no destination. It's not something to aim for in the afterlife. It's simply the quality of this moment. — Gautama Buddha

Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players. — Milan Kundera

The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance. — Billy Collins

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like. — Sarah Jessica Parker

I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me. — Mika.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind. — George Washington

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write. — Jeff Lindsay

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses. — Gordon Strachan