Encryptstick Quotes & Sayings

The only place where we can touch Jesus and the Kingdom of God is within us. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Later, when his desires had been satisfied, he slept in an odorous whorehouse, snoring lustily next to an insomniac tart, and dreamed. He could dream in seven languages: Italian, Spanic, Arabic, Persian, Russian, English and Portughese. He had picked up languages the way most sailors picked up diseases; languages were his gonorrhea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague,his plague. As soon as he fell asleep half the world started babbling in his brain, telling wondrous travelers' tales. In this half-discovered world every day brought news of fresh enchantments. The visionary, revelatory dream-poetry of the quotidian had not yet been crushed by blinkered, prosy fact. Himself a teller of tales, he had been driven out of his door by stories of wonder, and by one in particular, a story which could make his fortune or else cost him his life. — Salman Rushdie

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized man misses no real refinement in the poetry of the rudest era. It reminds him that civilization does but dress men. It makes shoes, but it does not toughen the soles of the feet. It makes cloth of finer texture, but it does not touch the skin. Inside the civilized man stands the savage still in the place of honor. We are those blue-eyed, yellow-haired Saxons, those slender, dark-haired Normans. — Henry David Thoreau

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it. — Michael Caine

Saving Aven was like saving a part of you. The part that you loved the most. The part I wanted to get to know. — Jordana Frankel

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. — Boleslaw Prus

Had a gay bull I had to sell last year. That was a damn nuisance. Gay son? That don't cost me nothing. — Abigail Roux

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. — Ernest Hemingway,

You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other--the side that makes big things small or small things big. — Carrie Fisher

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad. — William Clay Ford Jr.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. — Robert Aris Willmott

She did not know that a copy of her incomplete thesis sat behind one of his firewalls, ensuring her words would survive any event short of the apocalypse. These were the only gestures that made sense to him. So much of what he felt did not translate. — G. Willow Wilson

If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart. — Laura Holford-Green

It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death. — Emmeline Pankhurst