Dieselsite Quotes & Sayings

I've reached that point in my journey, where there is more scenery in the rear view mirror than there is roadway ahead, I now have the time to write. I would rather hit the end of the road at full throttle than coast to a stop in the sunset. — Dennis Randall

Gansey was right. You really can be a raging feminist. — Maggie Stiefvater

Meanwhile she's coldly interrogating me with her eyes. She's definitely in charge of this house and this moment. This must be Chloe.
She escorts me to a table full of people and presents me. She introduces them briefly. This one's from Morocco, that one from Italy, he's Persian
I'm not exactly sure what that means
this one's from "the UK." They're all in their twenties, poised and dismissive. They don't know or care who I'm supposed to be at home or where I went to school. They're measuring something else I can't see and don't understand.
They nod and turn back to each other. They seem to be waiting for a cue from Chloe to release them from having to feign interest. She introduces herself at substantially more length. Her father is Chinese and her mother is Swiss; she grew up in Hong Kong and "in Europe."
I grew up in Michigan and in Michigan. But she didn't ask. — Kenneth Cain

David Copperfield has no magic in him. I'm talking about Santa flying around the world in one night kind of magic. Pumpkins transformed into coaches kind of magic. — Sydney Strand

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about. — William T. Vollmann

The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it. — Ernest Becker

But perception becomes truth if you can get people to see it your way. Truth is a much more fluid concept than you choose to believe it is -Danny — Wendy Wunder

Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be. — Homer

I'd want to fly. I know it's not very useful, but ... it's flying. — Rainbow Rowell

The most difficult person to hide from is yourself. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. — Victor Hugo

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Son, we live in the era where the villains aren't always bad. They probably are the ones who stand for the truth better than us!" ~General Susilo, Lost Bastard — Bima Whynot

Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims. — James A. Forbes

The characters act for reasons that they can't control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it's all just puppetry on the part of the writer. — Johnny Rich