Illslick Quotes & Sayings

The door was flung open. Maurice Duplay filled it; energetic master, shirt- sleeves rolled up. He threw out his arms, the good Jacobin Duplay, and formed a sentence totally original, something which had never been uttered in the history of the world: Camille, you have a son, and your wife is very well, and is asking you to be at home, right now. — Hilary Mantel

A picture is poem without words. — Confucius

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. — George Henry Lewes

The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding. — Ann Zwinger

He puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets. — Brian Henson

Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down working moms. It's a war in which both sides are trying to put the other one down. — Leslie Morgan Steiner

And that's the thing, I think ... the real reason I'm not that weirded out by you two. It goes against all sound logic, but somehow, you two together ... it just works. — Richelle Mead

Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was. — Don DeLillo

If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not seen. It has found a hiding-place in such an insignificant shell that one would not have found it with a candle by daylight.... — Anton Chekhov

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. — Robert A. Heinlein

Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do! — Yasser Seirawan

Tarver lifts one hand to touch my face, tracing the curve of my cheek. "Lilac, if something happened to you," he murmurs, "I would be anything but fine. — Amie Kaufman