Doubleradius Quotes & Sayings

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. — Ambrose Bierce

No lies are more seductive than the ones we use to console ourselves. — Laila Lalami

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves. — William Bell Riley

And don't try to make yourself an extended family out of ghosts on the Internet. Get yourself a Harley and join the Hell's Angels instead. — Kurt Vonnegut

Y'all mythological niggas is comical,
The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you ...
And embalmin' in your crew, too.
With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do. — Keith Murray

It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician - but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility. — Dean Koontz

Generally women are better than men
they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives. — Lauren Bacall

Between a plan and it's achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through. — Israelmore Ayivor

I am made, crudely, for success. — Sylvia Plath

I never cared," he said. "I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you. — Cassandra Clare

That's how it is, Rocamadour: in Paris we're like fungus, we grow on the railings of staircases, in dark rooms with greasy smells, where people make love all the time and then fry some eggs and put on Vivaldi records, light cigarettes ... and outside there are all sorts of things, the windows open onto the air and it all begins with a sparrow or a gutter, it rains a lot here, rocamadour, much more than in the country, and things get rusty ... we don't have many clothes, we get along with so few, a good overcoat, some shoes to keep the rain out, we're very dirty, everybody is dirty and good-looking in Paris, Rocamadour, the beds smell of night and deep sleep, dust and books underneath. — Julio Cortazar

Yeah," I said. Sometimes I was full of halfhearted yeahs. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Ah well. You know what they say. Progress, not perfection. That's why it's called training. Shall we begin again? — Claire Thompson

If this went on much longer, Mary Augustin told herself, her brain would be riddled with question marks, hundreds of little hooks set so deep they'd never let go. — Sara Donati

A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider audience. — Robert Harris