Fafnirs Brother Quotes & Sayings

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants. — Bill Cosby

You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical a novel, you get into the dangers that the French novel has discovered in the past 50 or 60 years. And you get into a sort of aridity. No, you have to have real, identifiable people to whom the reader reacts in a way as if they were real people. — Julian Barnes

We look good taped back together. — Sarah Cross

In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life. — Martin Luther

Now that he had invited Tilly, William found himself trying to remember what she looked like. It was almost like going on a blind date, he thought, something that previously he would never have dreamed of doing but he now found rather exciting. She was certainly attractive, he was sure of that, even if he had seen her only once, and for a very brief period. — Alexander McCall Smith

In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese. — Jami Attenberg

I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person. — Gabrielle Zevin

Time is generally the best doctor. — Ovid

I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences! — Clayton Christensen

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor! — Pope Francis

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free. — Timothy Noah

It would be tedious to attempt a phonetic reproduction of Mr. Sage's utterances. Enough to say that they were genteel to a fantastic degree. "Aye thot Aye heeard somewon teeking may neem in veen," may give some idea of his rendering of the above sentence. Let it go at that. — Anonymous

It was not the sea that was cruel, but the people — Charlotte Rogan

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues. — Dee Dee Myers

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived. — Louis Sachar