Geeks Help Quotes & Sayings

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people. — Ernest Hemingway,

When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to get it. It's going to be shelved in crime and it's just the way it is. I've done something that no one else has ever done; I've started out as a mystery writer, a police writer, and a crime writer, and I became something entirely different. — James Ellroy

Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers? — Robert Black

There was a small glass vase between us, three gladioli in a few ounces of water. One of the gladioli had dropped a petal- brushstroke of purple on fine white cloth. Rinpoche drank the last sip of his tea, then set the cup aside, took the petal with his thumb and second finger, placed it on the middle of the saucer in front of him, and turned the cup upside down to cover it.
"I feel a lesson coming on," I said ...
"The flower is the good inside every person," he said. "The cup is like a wall, to protect. Many people have that wall."
"Armor" I said. He nodded.
"Why?"
"Because to live without the cup means you must feel the world as the world really is. — Roland Merullo

If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart. — Irving Pichel

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live. — Cate Blanchett

That's right," she said softly, watching. "It's not everyone can go through the stones, is it? Why us? — Diana Gabaldon

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most. — Jodi Picoult

The impossible is possible with passion — Tone Lee

Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. — E.P. Roe

It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born. — George Ticknor

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract. — John Green

Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life — Benjamin Disraeli

A man who can reason over trifles will become conceited, and will take pleasure in being described as 'odd'. He will start boasting that he was born with a personality that doesn't fit well with contemporary society, and be convinced that nobody else is above him. He will surely meet with divine retribution. Regardless of what abilities a man may possess, he will be of little use if rejected by others. People don't slight those who are eager to help and serve well, and who readily exhibit humility to their associates. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints. — Gore Vidal

Happiness is not out here. It is in there. — Matt Haig