Illianos North Quotes & Sayings

The universe is littered with them: hidden villages, windswept little towns under wide skies, isolated cabins on chilly mountains, whose only mark on history is to be the incredibly ordinary place where something extraordinary started to happen. Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall. Mist — Terry Pratchett

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith

A lumbering soul but trying to fly... — John Steinbeck

What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife? — Ransom Riggs

In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first? — John Scalzi

I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,
And I look at flowers and I smile...
I don't know if they understand me
Or if I understand them,
But I know the truth is in them and in me
And in our common divinity
Of letting ourselves go and live on the Earth
And carrying us in our arms through the contented Seasons
And letting the wind sing us to sleep
And not have dreams in our sleep. — Alberto Caeiro

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought. — Robert Graves

All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it. — Ken Grimwood

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomat - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know how much oil to mix in with one's vinegar. — Oscar Wilde

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. — Robert A. Heinlein

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class. — Mark Poster