Interlopers Saki Quotes & Sayings

Tyrion felt the heat rise in him. "It was not my dagger," he insisted. "How many times must I swear to that? Lady Stark, whatever you may believe of me, I am not a stupid man. Only a fool would arm a common footpad with his own blade."
Just for a moment, he thought he saw a flicker of doubt in her eyes, but what she said was, "Why would Petyr lie to me?"
"Why does a bear shit in the woods?" he demanded. "Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man like Littlefinger. You ought to know that, you of all people. — George R R Martin

I had, bluntly, the worst fucking headache I had ever had in my life. I'm trying to think of the best way to describe it. Try this. Imagine a migraine, on top of a hangover, while sitting in a kindergarten of thirty screaming children, who are all taking turns stabbing you in the eye with an ice pick. — John Scalzi

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there. — John Vance Cheney

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. — Jacob Hacker

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that 'begging bowl' to which the gift is drawn. — Lewis Hyde

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world. — Michael Franti

I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing. — Betty Ford

You know, really - actually, it's funny because it's a sore spot with me because I have all these recipes that, you know, you have to measure things out and put them in. And then you bake it and it becomes this thing. And it's not a recipe. — Trisha Yearwood

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. — J.G. Ballard

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. — Johannes Brahms

We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements. — Richard Willstatter

I want you, and I want you forever. One lifetime is simply not enough for me. — Stephenie Meyer

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on — Richard Gere