Kathmandu District Quotes & Sayings

Climbing is as close as we can come to flying. — Margaret Young

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. — James Madison

I feel confused about what I'm supposed to be doing as a feminist because I do like fashion, and I do like magazines, too. I buy them on airplanes. I like seeing what hot trends are new this fall. It makes me feel very conflicted a lot of the time. — Megan Amram

You saved Hal's wife, why not my wife? Why not Janice? WHY NOT MY JANICE? — Stephen King

For me, where genre ends and literature begins doesn't matter. What matters is whether a given novel hits me with high impact. If it does, it probably is fulfilling the purpose of fiction. It has drawn me into a story world, held me captive, taken me on a journey with characters like none I've ever met, revealed truths I've somehow always known and insights that rock my brain. It's filled me with awe, which is to say it's made me see the familiar in a wholly new way and made the unfamiliar a foundational part of me. It both entertains and matters. It both captures our age and becomes timelessly great. It does all that with the sturdy tools of story and the flair of narrative art. — Donald Maass

Power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us. — Euripides

I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms. — Ezra Taft Benson

I needed to take control of the dream. I held out a hand with fingers splayed and focused my will. "Zzzzzzzsssst! Pshew! Zzzzist!" I said. But nothing happened.
"What in Sang are you doing, love?" he asked.
My arm dropped to my side. "I was trying to shoot lightning bolts out of my fingertips," I said. Then, quietly, "It usually works."
"Told you it wasn't a dream. Do you want to try flying, too?"
Sheepishly, I gave a little hop, but my feet came back down to the ground.
"No," I said, feeling sullen and embarrassed and on the verge of outright panic. — Delilah S. Dawson

I hope to inspire people, influence people. — Ashley Tisdale

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad. — P.C. Cast

A feeble fire is worse than an empty grate. — Graham Swift

It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily needs or solving our problems. This learned helplessness is, of course, much to the advantage of the corporations eager to step forward and do all this work for us. One — Michael Pollan

I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them. — Rachel Weisz