Gedenken An Verstorbene Quotes & Sayings

Riding a bull must be a bit like flying an ultralight. You get up there and have an exhilarating ride, but then you still have to get down. — Susan Spence

getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like lemmings running headlong to the sea, we are oblivious. — William Wordsworth

War has been the norm and peace the exception — Susan Sontag

Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So ... God gives the world a living epistle- you. — Kay Arthur

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. — Alison Bechdel

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so. — David Weber

To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors. — Tia Walker

The Great Sadness
You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
Night on earth. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I think US/UK genre has become more open to "diverse" writers and writing; there's a genuine interest in reading work from countries outside the US/UK and hearing voices that have been historically shut out, but at the same time, people are quite lazy. That sounds harsh, but I include myself in it - your tastes are shaped by what you've read and watched before, and it takes a little effort to understand stories that use a different voice, that follow different storytelling conventions, that are trying to subvert the dominant paradigm. There's a quite large group of people who are "yay diversity" in theory, but I think the number of people who have then said to themselves, "OK, if I'm committed to this, I need to start reading outside my comfort zone and making an effort" is maybe a little smaller. — Zen Cho

Not many players get three cracks of the cherry. — Adrian Chiles

I feel I've done the 10,000 hours you have to do to get good at something. — Graeme Simsion

You will be known as the One who protected the Eight. - Hilde to One — Pittacus Lore

Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader's store of hypotheses about how life is to be understood. — Marilynne Robinson

The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind that solves crimes with the bright light, the soft sap, the kick to the kidneys, the knee to the groin, the fist to the solar plexus, the night stick to the base of the spine. Six months later he was indicted for perjury before a grand jury, booted without trial, and later stamped to death by a big stallion on his ranch in Wyoming.
Right now I was his raw meat. — Raymond Chandler

I don't think science is totally true, because I've seen miracles happen through prayer. — Meredith Brooks