Editeldlogbook Quotes & Sayings

With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to be confused with the Middle Ages, of course), consisting in the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive). — W.C. Sellar

Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality - the deception was bearable. — Vladimir Nabokov

Try to breathe, he said, and for the first time the only thought in my head after an instruction like that wasn't Fuck you.
I breathed. — Alice Sebold

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed' — Rodney Carrington

He walked there, reading in the evening and heard the cries of the boys' lines at their play, young cries in the quiet evening. He was their rector: his reign was mild. — James Joyce

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. — George Gaylord Simpson

In eternity
We live. Come from.
Life is one Series of footprints. — Shashi

I learned a great deal from [Raymond] Chandler - any writer can - but there had always been basic differences between us. One was in our attitude to plot. Chandler described a good plot as one that made for good scenes, as if the parts were greater than the whole. I see plot as a vehicle of meaning. It should be as complex as contemporary life, but balanced enough to say true things about it. The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. Which means that the structure must be single, and intended. — Ross Macdonald

Since I will never know what the future holds, I choose to live my life expecting great things — Meena Sarine