Hjorth Brothers Quotes & Sayings

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved. — Alexander McCall Smith

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else ... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me? — Arthur Schopenhauer

It is this kind of resourcefulness, I think, that explains how this hardy band of Vikings managed to survive more than one thousand years on an island that is about as hospitable to human habitation as the planet Pluto - if Pluto were a planet, that is, which it's not. — Eric Weiner

Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it. — Jam Master Jay

He grinned at her. "Well, then I have a bit of a confession to make. Colin said some things to me and the sound of his voice irritated me so I had one of those clowns with the big red noses in the paediatric wing turn him into a balloon animal. A giraffe I'm afraid. Sad fate it was," Alessandro joked with no sign of remorse at all. — E. Jamie

Jesus, this world, this world. I feel so heartsick. I cannot even retch.

And I dream of that awful board, piled with tokens moving each other by their own secret rules. A game of alien powers but those powers escape the game to move among us. They roam the world cow-eyed and compassionate and offer hands with fingers like fishhooks. We live in a paddock, a fattening pen, and we cannot leave it, because when we try to go the hooks say, Think of who you'll hurt.

So much hurt to try to heal. And the healing hurts too much. — Seth Dickinson

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts. — Felix O. Hartmann

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything. — Shane Carruth

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith. — George MacDonald

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. — Liu Xiaobo

The only time I'll quit is when my pulse does. — Jonathan Heatt

The value of art is in the observer. — Agnes Martin

White pages are not bad news. They're just part of the process. What's a sea voyage without long weary days spent crossing the blank bits of the map? It's how you get to the other side. — John Dyson

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17). — Edward Gibbon

I did learn that standing by your principles is always the right call, even when dealing with people in positions of power. — Megyn Kelly