Druknet Quotes & Sayings

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. — Rita Dove

Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome. — Mike Scully

You and I both worry about what it means to put our personal libraries onto one gadget and then what would happen if we dropped it in the bathtub ... — Jason Merkoski

As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations. — Michael Shermer

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored. — Jack Vance

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action. — Twyla Tharp

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. — Carl Sandburg

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. — Mason Cooley

I'm pretty skeptical about a lot of the toys on the market, especially for young kids. Most of them just add these new technologies just to make more flashing lights. — Mitchel Resnick

Careful there, Sera. When you're upset, your wall cracks. I'm getting a whiff of your magic." He inhaled long and deep. "Mmm. Delicious." He shot her a roguish smile. Which she ignored. Or pretended to, anyway. — Ella Summers

Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus. — Richard Kirwan

Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai's personal opinion. It depends on the person, he said about the kind of lies they tell, what situation they tell them in, and how the lies are told. But at a certain point in their lives, all women tell lies, and they lie about important things. They lie about unimportant things, too, but they also don't hesitate to lie about the most important things. And when they do, most women's expressions and voices don't change at all, since it's not them lysing, but this independent organ they're equipped with that's acting on its own. That's why - except for a few special cases - they can still have a clear conscience and never lose sleep over anything they say. — Haruki Murakami