Fermor Primary Quotes & Sayings

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. — W.B.Yeats

Emma wanted a real man's hands on her body. Big and rough hands belonging to a strong, tough man who would grab her and throw her onto a bed where he'd spread her thighs wide, yank her head back by the hair, and kiss her breathless while loving her until she was senseless. — Cat Johnson

I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?)
I'm out for dead presidents to represent me. — Nas

Prevention is better than cure. — Desiderius Erasmus

I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music. — Prince Royce

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. — Abby Sunderland

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones. — Sara Sheridan

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. — Immanuel Kant

Family is at the heart of everything I do. — Blake Lively

I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything. — Patricia Kaas

Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them. — Daniel H. Wilson

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head. — Matthew Vaughn

He walked over to Isaac and grabbed him by the shoulders. "Dude, pillows don't break. Try something that breaks."
Isaac reached for a basketball trophy from the shelf above the bed and then held it over his head as if waiting for permission.
"Yes," Augustus said. "Yes!" The trophy smashed against the floor, the plastic basketball player's arm splintering off, still grasping its ball. Isaac stomped on the trophy.
"Yes!" Augustus said. "Get it!" And then back to me, "I've been looking for a way to tell my father that I actually sort of hate basketball, and I think we've found it. — John Green

But a very large piece of my carefulness had always been listening to the subtle whisperings of the Dark Passenger, and it was still being strangely shy about sharing its thoughts. — Jeff Lindsay