Durkovic Quotes & Sayings

I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package. — Melissa De La Cruz

You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you."
Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me. — Pamela Clare

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely. — Gillian Flynn

I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it. — Vivian Campbell

There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches. — Frances Mayes

A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire. — Patrick Rothfuss

Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected. — Boyd K. Packer

In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles. — Maria Popova

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script. — Alexis Denisof

O the sad frugality of the middle-income mind. O the humorless neatness of an intellectuality which buys mass-produced candlesticks and carefully puts one at each end of every philosophical mantlepiece! How far it lies from the playfulness of Him who composed such odd and needless variations on the themes of leaf and backbone, eye and nose! A thousand praises that it has only lately managed to lay its cold hand on the wines, the sauces, and the cheeses of the world! A hymn of thanksgiving that it could not reach into the depths of the sea to clamp its grim simplicities over the creatures that swim luminously in the dark! A shout of rejoicing for the fish who wears his eyeballs at the ends of long stalks, and for the jubilant laughter of the God who holds him in life with a daily bravo at the bravura of his being! — Robert Farrar Capon

You are not a drop in a ocean,
You are entire ocean in a drop. — Jalaluddin Rumi

I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples ... but often, environmentalism is used to blackmail companies. — Vladimir Putin

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for. — Rick Pitino

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar. — Peer Steinbruck