Dumnonian Quotes & Sayings

Crushes weren't a precursor to love, they were a precursor to having your heart chewed up like Shark Week. — Koren Zailckas

The people of your world are forgetting their foundations. Discernment erodes and muddies all waters, no matter how pure. — Wayne Thomas Batson

Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God. — Andy Murray

For many of us, the people we find most difficult to praise are the ones closest to us - our mates, our children, our parents, and sometimes our friends. — Susan Jeffers

But most of our time was spent telling stories. We had so little in common that stories were all that we could share. — Patrick Rothfuss

In 2001 New York came under attack, and thousands of people simply evaporated, leaving behind only dust and bits of gold Rolex watches. We were told that we had nothing to worry about, that we should go shopping. I was eager to please my country, for shopping had long been an answer for me, but what I couldn't pay for, I stole. I started to accumulate stuff I felt would make me feel whole: I surrounded myself with symbols of status. I believed the TV commercials with all my heart. I felt that those material things I was being sold defined me. — Joe Pantoliano

English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us. — Willard Van Orman Quine

You speak French, Thiago?" Shawn asked in amusement. Thiago shook his head in answer. "Don't worry. Neither does Remy," Shawn snickered. Thiago actually fully smiled at him then, and Shawn marveled at how much the wide grin changed the man's appearance. He looked almost relaxed. "I heard that, couyon!" came Remy's voice one last time. "That was the point, dear. — Abigail Roux

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously. — Brian Mulroney

Are all Dumnonian warriors so ill-mannered?" she asked the table at large in an acid voice.
"You want warriors to be courtiers?" Celwin retorted brusquely. "You'd send your precious poets to kill the Franks? And I don't mean by reciting their verses at them, though come to think of it that might be quite effective." He leered at the Queen and the three poets shuddered. — Bernard Cornwell