Eerder Quotes & Sayings

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. — Joseph Conrad

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard. — Winston Churchill

And like the sun, I will always rise. — Nikki Rowe

Between the palaces of the knights and those that served them; the convents, the elegant homes belonging to officers of the Church and the town; between the bakehouse and the shops of the craftsmen, the arsenals and magazines, the warehouses, the homes of merchants and courtesans, Italian, Spanish, Greek; past the painted shrines and courtyards scraped from pockets of earth with their bright waxy green carob trees, a fig, a finger of vine, a blue and orange pot of dry, dying flowers and a tethered goat bleating in a swept yard, padded the heirs of this rock, this precious knot in the trade of the world. Umber-skinned, grey-eyed, barefoot and robed as Arabs with the soft, slurring dialect that Dido and Hannibal spoke, they slipped past the painted facades to their Birgu of fishermen's huts and blank, Arab-walled houses or to sleep, curled in the shade, with the curs in a porch. — Dorothy Dunnett

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line. — Dylan Moran

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. — Margaret Atwood

I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me. — Jodelle Ferland

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. — B.B. King

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better. — David E. Kelley

The first prerequisite for fine literature is that the writer must see the language not as a transparent medium for self-expression or the representation of reality, but as a medium one must struggle with to make it do one's bidding. — Minae Mizumura