Klingermans Quotes & Sayings

You can't draw a tattoo on the face and expect it to be hidden when you don't wear a veil. — S.A. David

Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan. — Mervyn Peake

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour — Peter Hain

As pretty as a flower . . . as strong as a weed. — Mia Sheridan

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full. — Josiah Stamp

I'm not going to miss wearing the braces very much. — America Ferrera

Nothing works out according to plan, but it always works out. — Christopher McDougall

Omit needless words. — William Strunk Jr.

Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other. — John Walford

When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses - how exactly are you going to make money? — Andrew Ross Sorkin