Gunnlaugur Karlsson Quotes & Sayings

your fate involves a dark assailant — Sylvia Plath

Ignorance is no cure for suffering. — Seneca.

His round cheeks are of a red that seems to glow from within, as if he had a lit candle in his mouth like a paper lantern at a summer fete. — Joseph Roth

I have been visited by every shade of grief and know that it doesn't come in black or white — Michael Robotham

She eyed him but said nothing. Why did he always have to pull out the truth?
"It's not like I haven't seen you pee before. Go ahead."
"Eww, you have not!"
"Yup, you were six and you had to go and there was no one else to take you."
Oh God ... she'd been so humiliated she must have blanked it from her memory. — Dee Tenorio

view from everyone on the main floor. My — Sylvia Day

I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting ... — Kalup Linzy

Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too. — Samantha Stosur

If it doesn't work, get better, and try again. — Daniel Vlcek

The process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind. — Elizabeth Bowen

Fear is strange. It settles on chests and seeps through skin, through layers of tissue, muscle, and bone and collects in a soul-sized black hole, sucking the joy out of life, the pleasure, the beauty. But not the hope. Somehow, the hope is the only thing resistant to the fear, and it is that hope that makes the next breath possible, the next step, the next tiny act of rebellion, even if that rebellion is simply staying alive. — Amy Harmon

I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally intelligent, something that we as modest investigators will never attain, no matter how much we exert ourselves. Nevertheless ... I continue to believe that there is always room for anyone with average intelligence ... to utilize his energy and ... any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least gifted may, like the poorest land that has been well-cultivated and fertilized, produce an abundant harvest.. — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

It would take a denial of all cultural tradition for women to produce even a true 'female' art. For a woman who participates in (male) culture must achieve and be rated by standards of a tradition she had no part in making - and certainly there is no room in that tradition for a female view, even if she could discover what it was. — Shulamith Firestone

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time. — Erik Paulsen