Dieramos Quotes & Sayings

There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it. — Peter Morgan

Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way. — John Mearsheimer

There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity. — Marc Maron

Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read. — Rebecca Raisin

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics. — Alex Van Halen

I read books to read myself. — Sven Birkerts

ABOYNE (vb.)
To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him. — Douglas Adams

Galen and Rayna are close."
I gasp. "How do you know that? I can't feel them." My heart turns traitor, beating like I just ran five miles uphill. It has nothing to do with sensing and everything to do with the mention of Galen's name.
"I'm a Tracker, Emma. I can sense them from almost across the world. Especially Rayna. And from the feel of things, Galen is flittering that cute little fin of his like crazy to get back to you. Rayna must be riding on his back."
"You can tell what she's doing?"
"I can tell how fast she's moving. No one can swim as fast as Galen, Rayna included. He must be pretty impatient to see you."
"Yeah. Impatient for me to change so he can have another royal subject to order around."
Toraf's laughter startles me, not because it's loud, but because his mood seems to swing around on an axis. "Is that what you think?" he says. — Anna Banks

If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor. — Julia Child

I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children. — Barbara Windsor

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya. — Paul O'Grady

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does. — Isaac Watts

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting. — Alphonse De Lamartine