Knighten 18 Quotes & Sayings

Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world. — Barbara Kingsolver

The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. — Walter Scott

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

I need complete silence when I write. — Chris Bohjalian

The cities, which had been the bearers of culture, were especially hard hit; substantial citizens, in large numbers, fled to escape the tax-collector. It was not till after the death of Plotinus that order was re-established and the Empire temporarily saved by the vigorous measures of Diocletian and Constantine. Of all this there is no mention in the works of Plotinus. He turned aside from the spectacle of ruin and misery in the actual world, to contemplate an eternal world of goodness and beauty. In this he was in harmony with all the most serious men of his age. To all of them, Christians and pagans alike, the world of practical affairs seemed to offer no hope, and only the Other World seemed worthy of allegiance. To the Christian, the Other World was the Kingdom of — Bertrand Russell

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life's purpose every day. — Denis Waitley

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives. — Catherine Hardwicke

Carol, a swing-shift cocktail waitress in the Bird of Paradise's show lounge had gotten home (guesswork, here) around 2:15 - 2:30, poured herself a glass of milk, and had opened the back door of the kitchen for reasons unknown. (Fingerprints were later found on the outside knob that, while smudged, didn't belong to either girl.)
She had opened the door, and died. Suddenly, quietly, without disturbing her sleeping roommate only a few feet away. — Jeff Rice

This place is in my heart, but it can't be my home, not now, maybe not ever ... - Samuel Yates — Amy Harmon

Delhi: This place is inself an oxymoron. — Parul Wadhwa

I have been keeping track of the boy with the bread. — Suzanne Collins

The measure of a design is how easily it accommodates changes. With no changes, it's a runner who never leaves the starting line. — Robert Nystrom

Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It's a blessing that I can write about it all. — Big K.R.I.T.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler