Kratzert Jones Quotes & Sayings

It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I take medieval mystery breaks, for they can be completed in only a year. — Sharon Kay Penman

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off — Nigel Short

I told you and told you there was nothing to be afraid of. — Jon Stone

What is a look of absolute fear? Popescu asked. The doctor belched a few times, shifted in his chair, and answered that it was a kind of look of mercy, but empty, as if all that were left of mercy, after a mysterious voyage, was the skin, as if mercy were a skin of water, say, in the hands of a Tatar horseman who gallops away over the steppe and dwindles untile he vanishes, and then the horseman returns, or the ghost of the horseman returns, or his shadow, or the idea of him, and he has the skin, empty of water now, because he drank it all during his trip, or he and his horse drank it, and the skin is empty now, it's a normal skin, an empty skin, because after all the abnormal thing is a skin swollen with water, but this skin swollen with water, this hideous skin swollen with water doesn't arouse fear, doesn't awaken it, much less isolate it, but the empty skin does, and that was what he saw in the mathematician's face, absolute fear. — Roberto Bolano

I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don't get that sort of system set by a certain age, you'll lack focus and your life will be out of balance. — Haruki Murakami

I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard. — Bob Monkhouse

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

He was laughing. But sad was the impression he gave. — Joseph Hansen

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row. — Lewis Black

This glittering reality is so wonderful. It suits you. — Calista Lynne

The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. — Seneca.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans. — Boris Vian

We should really synchronize our listening to Ummagumma so we can both freak out at the same time. — Sienna McQuillen

Athletics is a luxury. — Roger Bannister