Disired Quotes & Sayings

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge ... its tremendous power for both good and evil. — Abraham Lincoln

The mountain consisted of a giant cone of blue-gray rock and was surrounded by an endless, barren highland studded with a few trees charred by fire and overgrown with gray moss and gray brush, out of which here and there brown boulders jutted up like rotten teeth. Even by light of day, the region was so dismal and dreary that the poorest shepherd in this poverty-stricken province would not have driven his animals here. And by night, by the bleaching light of the moon, it was such a godforsaken wilderness that it seemed not of this world. — Patrick Suskind

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. — Jacqueline Bisset

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success. — Bobby Knight

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole? — Frank Zappa

Face it, nobody owes you anything. What you achieve, or fail to achieve is directly related to what you do or fail to do. — Anonymous

...quickly, he was eaten by the shadows. — Cat Patrick

Desperately, Cordelia stuck her foot through the whatchamacallit foot-holder, stirrup, grabbed, and heaved. The saddle slid slowly around the horse's belly, and Cordelia with it, till she was clinging underneath among a forest of horse legs. She fell to the ground with a thump and scrambled out of the way. The horse twisted its neck around and peered at her, in a dismay much milder than her own, then stuck its rubbery lips to the ground and began nibbling up weeds. — Lois McMaster Bujold

After he died, my mother was like a crab: she tucked everything inside and left only her shell. — Kathleen Glasgow

If you love someone, even the best one-night stand isn't going to erase that. — Julie Cross

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time? — Sigmund Freud

Christ, would you look at that shite? Supes an' religion, the two worst things on the planet. — Garth Ennis

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. — Christopher Hitchens