Konoplyanka Transfer Quotes & Sayings

Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone,
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I've always told my kids, when it comes to humor, go for the comical not the crude and coarse. You can tell an amazing story without dragging people through the muck. — Kenneth Wayne Wood

I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing. — George Clooney

In the Culture of Character, the ideal self was serious, disciplined, and honorable. What counted was not so much the impression one made in public as how one behaved in private. The word personality didn't exist in English until the eighteenth century, and the idea of "having a good personality" was not widespread until the twentieth. But when they embraced the Culture of Personality, Americans started to focus on how others perceived them. They became captivated by people who were bold and entertaining. "The social role demanded of all in the new Culture of Personality was that of a performer," Susman famously wrote. "Every American was to become a performing self. — Susan Cain

I transform fiction into memory. — Miguel Syjuco

You don't need too many people to be happy. Just a few real ones who appreciate you for who you are. — Wiz Khalifa

Holy Wrath of God, Batman, your ass was going to be ours soon, you soul-trapping son of a bitch. — Laurell K. Hamilton

There is nothing more exasperating than reading in contemporary guidebooks disparagements of places that are deemed to be "seedy." Do the writers not notice that such places are invariably crowded with people? When a neighborhood is described as "seedy" by some Lonely Planet prude, I immediately head there. — Lawrence Osborne

She's got the passion for ideas, while I've got no extra passion for anything but her. — Pierce Brown

You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's often a beat of silence in the auditorium before the applause begins. It's a very full and pregnant silence. Now theology should bring us to live into that silence, into that pregnant pause. — Karen Armstrong

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. — Marion LeRoy Burton

I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it. — Lawrence Timmons