Fortressed Quotes & Sayings

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving. — Billy Graham

I think anything's possible! Whatever you dream up, the Lord will have for you! — David Berg

Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. — Tillie Olsen

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. — Sol LeWitt

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing. — Jerry Mathers

He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts. — Kim Edwards

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing. — Joe Henderson

There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable. — A.E. Samaan

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Prayer is an education. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably. — Nayef Al-Rodhan

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living. — Marcus Aurelius

The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing. — Barry Eisler

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles. — Walter Kirn

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear. — Ron Paul

Nonethless it had been a castle, with all that this implies: it had had towering walls and turrets, beams as great as trees, arched doorways wide enough for processions to pass through, ceilings so cavernous that owls nested in them. It had had wings and ramparts and thin windows from which to shoot arrows, internal courtyards, banquet rooms, hidden doors, secret passages. It had had a chapel and, in its bowels, a dungeon. It housed sculptures and paintings, tapestries and cushions, carpets and carvings, its fortressed heart had been clad in glit, silver, glass, gold, damask, ivory, ermine. — Sonya Hartnett