Kimo Balthazer Quotes & Sayings

I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world. — Ivan Doig

I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours. — Joyce Carol Oates

FURTHER NOTE: This plan can ONLY go wrong in the event of ants. Ants do NOT like being pissed on. — Caitlin Moran

Jayan found teaching both frustrating and rewarding. It depended on the apprentice. Some were attentive and talented. Some were not. — Trudi Canavan

At this point, you may be wondering how I felt seeing my son with Nico di Angelo. I'll admit I did not understand Will's attraction to a child of Hades, but if the dark foreboding type was what made Will happy ...
Oh perhaps some of you are wondering how I felt seeing him with a boyfriend rather than a girlfriend. If that's the case, please. We gods are not hung up about such things. — Rick Riordan

When I make fun of you, I strike just the right note. When you make fun of me, you're an incredibly ungrateful asshole and you know why. — Alec Sulkin

To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more. Often, — Markus Zusak

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books ... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind. — Agnes Smedley

Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay? — Jodi Picoult

Oh, I'll fight you," she promised, her eyes clear of shadows. "That's the way I roll. — Sylvia Day

I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV. — Jennifer Aniston

Why is everyone hugging you? I asked.
I don't know. I'm likeable? — Amy Tintera

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus. — George Whitefield

They hurry in; the wind bangs a door behind them. Rafe takes his arm. He says, this silence of More's, it was never really silence, was it? It was loud with his treason; it was quibbling as far as quibbles would serve him, it was demurs and cavils, suave ambiguities. It was fear of plain words, or the assertion that plain words pervert themselves; More's dictionary, against our dictionary. You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, holds a concord. A shrivelled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.
Someone - probably not Cristophe - has put on his desk a shining silver pot of cornflowers. The dusky blueness at the base of the crinkled petals reminds him of this morning's light; a late dawn for July, a sullen sky. — Hilary Mantel

If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow. — Amanda Palmer

We have FCC, abandoned alimony payments, assault and battery, Homeland Security escalation, and that's before we invite the IRS to take a walk on your wild side. — Ken Goldstein