Dumbrava Quotes & Sayings

I said nothing - I hadn't known Marya, and anyway, "listening quietly" was my general social strategy — John Green

It is amazing to see all that is going on around us and it is people of action who make it all happen. — John Patrick Hickey

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. — John Keats

Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us. — Paul Murray

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.' — Eminem

Some lines you just don't cross. Not in my business."
"Your business?" Georgia rolled her eyes. "You mean the private detective business? I wasn't aware you guys had such ironclad rules about making out with clients." She ignored the choking sound he made. "Seriously, have you even seen The Maltese Falcon?"
Darius' face heated. "This isn't some movie, Ms. Clare. You're not Mary Astor, and I'm sure as hell no Humphrey Bogart. Here in the real world, there are rules. — Laura Oliva

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun. — Richard Jenkins

Shepard's theory of law had roused his intelligence, and gratified it, and he again felt master of his faculties. — Eleanor Catton

My mind is where evil comes to play.- Tonisa Draconvieh — Manner Hall

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky. — Victor Hugo

A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural. — Emmanuelle Alt

I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods. — Genie Francis

Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why
is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says
people need to shave twice a day. — Jeff Kinney

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them. — Ivan Lendl

The tree cannot walk, all its going must be violence. They listen to the saw cut, the roots scream. And in eating even a stalk of celery there will be pathetic screaming. — Robert Creeley