Kovalchick Convention Quotes & Sayings

The typists might have been so many blackbeetles. — Agatha Christie

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles. — Roger Ebert

Dilettantes,' Art3mis said. 'It's their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart. — Ernest Cline

All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center. — Richard Wilhelm

Mother once told me that one had to lower one's head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury. — Anchee Min

The pope heard of the Knights' lax morals and sent an inquisitor to the island in 1574; he set up shop in a mansion in the shopping district. — Tom Reiss

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. — William Cowper

Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease. — Lydia M. Child

The Danes had a great love of sea stories and the old sagas. Snorri provided the former from personal experience and Kara the latter from her vast store of such trivia. I half-thought some of the duke's men would volunteer to join the Undoreth and travel with the Vikings such was the level of worship on display ... — Mark Lawrence

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose). — Larry Wall

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays. — Jackie French