Dikkenek Quotes & Sayings

The birds screeched and continued to dive at us. One of them settled on a nearby branch and began berating us. I stopped in my tracks, however, when it actually called out, "Stupid creatures!" "Can they talk?" "Yes," Shardas said curtly, "making them even worse than Marta's monkey. If you talk to them, they will mimic the words. Unfortunately, most of what they hear are curse words, so please don't be shocked if they call you ruder things than 'stupid'. — Jessica Day George

There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores. — Robert A. Heinlein

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions ... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what. — Dalai Lama

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow. — James Gould Cozzens

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. — Robert Genn

Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: "Contempt for death." For us as artists, read "failure. — Steven Pressfield

The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it. — Rosamund Hodge

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. — Henry David Thoreau

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. — Beth Henley

It's going down, and it's going down right the fuck now. I don't care if there is a room full of witnesses — Tara Sivec

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless. — Haruki Murakami

He would be atleast sixteen-old enough to have a driver's licence- and he would have crinkles around his eyes that showed he had a sense of humor and he would be tall, the kind of boy all the other girls would like to date — Beverly Cleary