Gryphons And Gargoyles Quotes & Sayings

Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics equations as punch lines, the British monarchy, Russian grammar, and the significant role that salt has played in human history. — John Green

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was. — Ray Bradbury

He could solve this, Vimes told himself. Everything he needed was there, if only he asked the right questions and thought the right way. But — Terry Pratchett

Lieutenant Cranston, sitting across the tavern table from him, looked startled. "Something amiss, Captain?" "It's as I feared - we've been called back to sea early. We set sail in less than a — Elizabeth Hoyt

Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun. — Alan Lindsay

Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you? — Alexandre Dumas

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away. — Milan Kundera