Duncansby Quotes & Sayings

Stress is a disease that can deteriorate the brain. Cure; Read, Garden, Swim. — Jennifer Collins

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious. — Nathan Hale

It's a messy business, dying,' he said. 'As time goes on there's just less and less of you. It happens quickly for some; for others it can drag on. Starting from birth you keep losing one thing after another: first a finger, than an arm, first a tooth, then a whole set of teeth, first one memory, then all your memory, and so on and so forth, until one day there's nothing left. Then they chuck what's left of you in a hole and shovel it in and that's your lot. — Robert Seethaler

Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility. — Kristen Britain

Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system. — Alastair Reynolds

The sword's a really nice touch - did you get it at Faire Makers? - but I'm not buying the attitude. It's not really Merit. You should be channeling your inner vampire sex warrior. Like this," she said, then put her hands on her hips, canted out one leg, and smiled sensually. "What?" was all I could think to say. "Maybe a little more cleavage, too." "Cleavage." She nodded, winked. "A vampire sex warrior can never show too much cleavage. — Chloe Neill

Blue, largely against her will, glanced to the booth he pointed to. Three boys sat at it: one was smudgy, just as he said, with a rumpled, faded look about his person, like his body had been laundered too many times. The one who'd hit the light was handsome and his head was shaved; a soldier in a war where the enemy was everyone else. And the third was -- elegant. It was not the right word for him, but it was close. He was fine boned and a little fragile looking, with blue eyes pretty enough for a girl. — Maggie Stiefvater

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him ... I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck ... Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. — Bob Dylan

Lynn, my wife, would very much appreciate if I had a talent for anything besides music. — Sam Bush

And no matter how romantic and beautiful Greece was, I wasn't going to break my vows to Henry, even if they technically didn't apply for the next six months. I loved him no matter which season it was. — Aimee Carter

Being on a major network television show is like long-distance running: You have to pace yourself and maintain your energy level and your morale. There's the role you're playing on the show, and there's also your behind-the-scenes responsibility to the crew, the guest actors and the fans - not to mention your own life as a mom. — Kathryn Erbe

I'm on television, ticcing and twitching. I think that's kind of cool. — Tim Howard

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything. — John Irving

Veronique and Dylan having the mother of all arguments. I mean, it had a plot and a subplot and several walk-on parts ... — Sarra Manning

It feels nice to emerge from the lies. — Markus Zusak