Lankhmar Quotes & Sayings

You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal. — W. Somerset Maugham

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football. — Brent Musburger

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy "one word" Zen. When asked "What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?" he replied: "An appropriate statement." On another occasion, he answered: "Cake." I admired his directness. — Stephen Batchelor

Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when he does them, and in what manner are up to him. The name of Jesus, the power of his blood, and the prayer of faith have never lost their power over the centuries. — Jim Cymbala

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams

At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, showing only whites - milky ovals infinitely eerie in the dark root-tangle of her sharp features and stringy hair. The gray tip of her tongue traveled like a large maggot around her lips. — Fritz Leiber

I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome
mere Rome
will crowd everything else out of my heart. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet. — Doug Flutie

The art of dressing is the art we all practice — Anne Hollander

The sooner it's over, the sooner we can go back to bed. Everything good happens in bed. — Erin Kellison

Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion. — Fran Lebowitz

The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up. — Ann Bancroft

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such. — Fritz Leiber

To have lied is to have suffered. — Victor Hugo