Igns Society Quotes & Sayings

Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy. — Patricia Highsmith

A tractor beam from the Imperial ship locked onto the shuttle and in seconds it became apparent they were being hauled in. The tractor was inescapable, and they knew it. The shuttle's small yet potent engines struggled vainly against the irresistible pull. Inside, the Hammer and his men prepared to meet their fate. — Christina Engela

Really, is having your body taken by aliens all that bad? — San Francisco Chronicle

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting. — Alan Moore

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence. — Alva Noto

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the tide starts coming in, we won't really have lost anything, because actually only a symbol of it was there in the sand. Another part of us thinks we'll figure out a way to divert the ocean. This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be. — Anne Lamott

'Acting as if ... ' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent. — Samantha Power

Food is first for nourishment, not just for taste or appearance, and this is an important thing to teach children. — Katie Wells

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles. — Tupac Shakur

Never whistle for the wind unless you want it to blow, — Stephen King

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound and were bandying it to and fro. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don't wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards. — A.D. Posey

There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price. — H. L. Hunt