Fire Bringer Quotes & Sayings

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. — William Shenstone

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a bringer of Promethean fire, some unique transmission that comes out of nowhere. I prefer the opposite view - that writers come from somewhere. They read things, and they think about them, and they incorporate other people's thoughts. — Jonathan Lethem

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time ... We are everywhere. — Ann Brashares

If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be. — Kaka

We are traveling down a path with no happy ending, and it's too late to turn around. — Mandy Hubbard

At "tooth fairy," Sophie popped her head out the door. "I will smack that bitch up and take her bag of quarters! I will not be fucked with! — Christopher Moore

Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire. — William James

The one necessary thing. - A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting. — Anderson Cooper

But in no epoch has the struggle to find sanctuary in a foreign country been as arduous as in the present day, as countries isolate themselves behind hostility and jealousy (from The House of a Thousand Fortunes / Das Haus der tausend Schicksale, 1937) — Stefan Zweig

Can't fucking believe it's come to this," it muttered. "Negotiating with a fucking herdsman - you know, sometimes it's - listen, I was the thief of fire once, you goat-shagging thug. You know that? The fucking doom bringer to kings." An arm thrown out in exasperation. "Back when the earth was young, back when there was still a moon in the fucking sky, I pulled on whatever flesh was needful and I struck terror into the hearts of the powerful and enthroned all across this mudball world, and another dozen like it. I took the spirit form and strode across measureless ... ah, fuck it, never mind. — Richard K. Morgan

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection. — Rabindranath Tagore

Love is overrated. All it brings is emptiness." I twirled the ring again. "Definitely not beauty. — Scarlett Dawn

Would I have loved her if I had know from the start what she is?" He shook his head. "If I had met her now... my first instinct would be to protect Dorian from her.

Celaena was a fraction of Aelin - both good and bad. But Aelin... she is Celaena, and she is queen, and she is the Fire-Bringer. I fell in love with a facet, and I panicked when I realized it was a fraction of the whole - when I saw that power, that heritage, and... it was not a part of my plans.

Rowan Whitethorn saw everything. From the moment he met her, he saw all of Aelin. And he was not afraid. I don't blame either of them for falling in love. I don't blame her... I was what Celaena need after Endovier. But Rowan is who Aelin needs - forever. — Sarah J. Maas

The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do. — Frederick Lenz

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written. — Charlie Kaufman