Houtian Quotes & Sayings

Now as always - humility and terror. Fear that the working of my pen cannot capture the grinding of my brain. It is so easy to understand why the ancients prayed for the help of a Muse. And the Muse came and stood beside them, and we, heaven help us, do not believe in Muses. We have nothing to fall back on but our craftsmanship and it, as modern literature attests, is inadequate. May I be honest; may I be decent; may I be unaffected by the technique of hucksters. If invocation is required, let this be my invocation - may I be strong and yet gentle, tender and yet wise, wise and yet tolerant. May I for a little while, only for a little while, see with the inflamed eyes of a God. — John Steinbeck

Anther spasm ripped through me and all I could wonder was why in the world had women been doing this for thousands of years? This was barbaric. This was torture. Never again. Never again as long as I lived would I have another baby, so Beep had better be pretty awesome. — Darynda Jones

Goals that are not frightening are not worth having. — Tina Brown

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily. — Mickey Rourke

So far, I was mostly using tools from people I knew or tools that were well established. I knew and trusted the technologists at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who made the HTTPS Everywhere software. Little Snitch was a well-known program. Similarly, 1Password was well established. — Julia Angwin

Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position. — Helen Fielding

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. — Karl Marx

I know who I am" he says, " that's enough for me" -Warner- — Tahereh Mafi

I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain. — Vicente Del Bosque

the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah