Frae Quotes & Sayings

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between. — Anne Carson

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion. — Robert Burns

It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour. — Robert Burns

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody. — Jerry Spinelli

I hadn't gone Stockholmy- I hated him, knew what he did was wrong, but my body, shit, my body didn't care. — Pepper Winters

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. — Minor White

TWO DOWN," Roger whispered. — Diana Gabaldon

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity. — Rachel Hunter

Yet another spunky li'l NASA robot lands and begins transmitting back photographs of rocks that appear virtually identical to the rock photos beamed back by all the other spunky li'l NASA robots, thus confirming suspicions that the universe has a LOT of rocks in it. — Dave Barry

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. — Robert Burns

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you. — Justin Timberlake

Do you swim? Hunt? Wrestle? I see. Can you use a crossbow? Your longest shot? Can you count? Read and write? Ah, the sting of sarcasm - Have we a scholar here? Then produce us a specimen," said Lymond. "What about some modest quatrains? Frae vulgar prose to flowand Latin. Deafen us, enchant us, educate us, boy. — Dorothy Dunnett

They gave these screens to us as chains. Today, we make them hammers. Karnus — Pierce Brown

Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd ... — Robert Burns

The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost and wasted in this alchemical dance of life. — Robin Sacredfire

Some books are lies frae end to end. — Robert Burns

You look confused," said Adrian.
I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things."
He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it. — Richelle Mead

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. — Sybille Bedford

Jamie let go of me. "Shut your mucky gob, man." He stepped close to our fearless leader in the dark, took hold of his jacket by the collar, and in a dead quiet voice that had gone dangerously Scots, threatened heatedly, "Talk like that again wi' these brave lassies listenin' an' Ah'll tear the filthy English tongue frae yer heid, so Ah will. — Elizabeth Wein

You whites make all the ammunition. — Red Cloud

You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons ... and they have to just move. — Ueli Steck