L434 Quotes & Sayings

As many as thirty or as few as ten years later, lying exhausted and still, eyes open in the dark long after the three suns of Rakhat had set, no longer bleeding, past the vomiting, enough beyond the shock to think again, it would occur to Emilio Sandoz to wonder if perhaps that day int he Sudan was really only part of the setup for a punchline a life-time in the making. It was an odd thought, under the circumstances. He understood that, even at the time. But thinking it, he realized with appalling clarity that on his journey of discovery as a Jesuit, he had not merely been the first human being to set foot on Rhakhat, had not simply explored parts of its largest continent and learned two of its languages and loved some of its people. He had also discovered the outermost limit of faith and, in doing so had located the exact boundary of despair. It was at that moment that he learned, truly, to fear God. — Mary Doria Russell

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. — Walter De La Mare

I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up. — Bryce Dallas Howard

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel. — Sidney Sheldon

Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff are the best. You won't have me ever say a bad word about them. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor. — Fiona Apple

All this time I had thought my son was striving to be my mirror opposite, but he wasn't - he had become my polar opposite instead, and that had sent him careering away. — Steve Toltz

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. — Nikki Giovanni

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow. — Jessica Cutler

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin. — Michala Petri

A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't pay any attention to politics."
"You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat."
"I don't pay any attention to that either. — Heinlein Robert A.

Just because there is no perceivable alternate exit does not mean another exit does not exist. I believe there may indeed be a way to escape. — Colleen Houck