Flopper Pond Quotes & Sayings

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. — Norman Lock

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated. — Michael Polanyi

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. — J.K. Rowling

This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and a shirt. — William Golding

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. — Kate Adie

Yet, all things must pass, but especially time, and with the months and then the years, I came slowly to have a place in the scheme of things. — Robin Hobb

Crowds have one expression, cruel and fixed. You let yourself be trapped by a look. You let yourself be carried off and shut away in a place of silence. There your eyes may be ripped out, your tongue cut off, and your fingers hammered until the little bones splinter. The walls are splashed with thick clots of blood. Words are the worst kind of dog, they drag us along despite ourselves to somewhere we didn't want to go, they obsess us, they don't let us have a moment's rest, a moment's rest.

But before that? Before that is another place altogether. Memory blanks things out methodically. It has several floors, sealed off from one another and there is no passage joining them. One of them is hell. When you fall in, at the very instant you lose your footing, you forget everything, even what light is like. But once you are back in the world you retain only a faint memory of being shut up. It resonates like the dull echo of pain. — Marie Desplechin

Life is about making mistakes. If you don't take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you're not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You're denying yourself much more than the bad things in life by listening to Zita's fortunes. — Kimberly Karalius

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future. — Nick Turse

How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations? — Thomas Jefferson

In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain. — Christopher Hitchens

Remember," she whispered, "it's only when the night is darkest that you can see the light of the stars. — Elizabeth Hunter