Ench Res Quotes & Sayings

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me. — Zane Grey

The muddy rivers of spring
Are snarling
Under the muddy skies.
The mind is muddy. — Wallace Stevens

Love is letting him win even though you know you could slaughter him. — Charles M. Schulz

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. — Dustin Hoffman

We are 10 percent of the population of this nation and it would be foolish for me to stand up and tell you we are going to get our freedom by ourselves. There's going to have to be a coalition of conscience and we aren't going to be free here in Mississippi and anywhere in the United States until there is a committed empathy on the part of the white man of this country, and he comes to see along with us that segregation denigrates him as much as it does the Negro. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest. — Laetitia Casta

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that. — Jane Gardam

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing. — Jon Krakauer

...[Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust. — Mary Doria Russell

ESAELP GNITTIPS ON
This mysterious decree would incite me to defy it and spit on the ground at once, but because the police were stationed two steps away in front of the Governor's Mansion, I'd just stare at it uneasily instead. Now I began to fear that spit would suddenly climb out of my throat and land on the ground without my even willing it. But as I knew, spitting was mostly a habit of grown-ups of the same stock as those brainless, weak-willed, insolent children who were always being punished by my teacher. Yes, we would sometimes see people spitting on the streets, or hawking up phlegm because they had no tissues, but this didn't happen often enough to merit a decree of this severity, even outside the Governor's Manson. Later on, when I read about the Chinese spitting pots and discovered how commonplace spitting was in other parts of the world, I asked myself why they'd gone to such lengths to discourage spitting in Istanbul, where it had never been popular. — Orhan Pamuk