Ikutin Quotes & Sayings

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues. — Eric Jerome Dickey

This was the boy who now kissed her without reservation, as if he were dying and she was air itself. — Morgan Rhodes

The place where you came from ain't there any more, and where you had in mind to go is cancelled out. This place you are now - inside your daddy's house - is nothing but a cardboard box I can knock down any time. You know that and always did know it. You hear me? — Joyce Carol Oates

Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again. — Jean Reno

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined. — Richard Koch

I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does. — Paulo Coelho

In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Constable N stepped away from the car, into the darkness where Darren could not see where his gun was pointing, and fired two rounds into the air. The gunshots cracked the roof of the night sky and echoed back at us. My first thought was that they could be heard all over Toekomsrus; I wondered how many imaginations had in that instant conjured a different story to explain the gunshots; a record of all those stories, I found myself thinking, would probably document every fear this place has of itself and its young men. — Jonny Steinberg

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible. — Janette Rallison

Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much. — Marie Lu

It's easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon. — Hugh Howey

The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains all the words of God we need for salvation, for trusting him perfectly, and for obeying him perfectly. — Wayne Grudem

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment. — Gore Vidal