Fakirs Define Quotes & Sayings

Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood — J.K. Rowling

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment. — Oscar Pistorius

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle. — Rand Paul

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged. — Mason Cooley

Night doesn't fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts
The night falls concretely
And the shining of stars exists like it had weight. — Alberto Caeiro

Anthony honed the razor along the old leather strop and stared intently at the metal blade as it went up and down, flipping back and forth, with the light exploding off of it like a series of quiet, hypnotic explosions. — Jonathan Douglas Duran

Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it. — Khaled Hosseini

I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant. — Michael Morpurgo

You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it. — Stephen Covey

You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... — Francesca Lia Block

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Boys and men are the same people, in different clothes. Boys wear short trousers and men wear long trousers. But they are just the same if you take their trousers off. — Alexander McCall Smith

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence. — Chris Bohjalian

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond. — Masaharu Anesaki

Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness. — Napoleon Hill