Lanneau Wijnen Quotes & Sayings

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society. — Kobo Abe

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one. — Margaret Atwood

Her conversation was like a Russian newspaper, remarkable for what is left unsaid. — Guy Thorne

I've been told my whole life that I've got all the power. But it's only now that I'm beginning to believe it. My days of selling junk food and perfume are over. If the world is going to listen to me, I better start saying things that are worth hearing. — Megan McCafferty

What goes up must come down. But what is up? And what is down? Are you up there looking down on me? Or is it I who has the trick with gravity? Reach for me and I'll reach for you. For in the middle is where grounds stand true. 'Tis not a lie nor a deceived eye, but an understanding between you and I. So I ask again to a friend with a cup, have a drink with me if you know what's up? — Sean F. Hogan

I would encourage more development in the boroughs outside of Manhattan as well. I think it's great that this natural emergence has occurred in the lower part of Midtown, but there's tremendous potential in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well. — John Liu

The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving. — Jojo Moyes

To sulk is to create a noise; to smile is to create a music. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. — James Madison

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. — Henry Ward Beecher

We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up. — Oswald Chambers

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man. — Gina Gershon

If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night. — Vanna Bonta

In supernatural horror stories, however, magical thinking is a completely different matter. Those characters contending with what seems to be the work of magic will deny till the very last moment that anything magical is going on. They will invoke reason and evidence and eek out corroborations for the cause of their problems. But readers of these stories are rarely, if ever, on the side of these characters. They desperately want to believe that there is indeed something magical going on and they are primed to accept it whenever it occurs. Some readers especially enjoy a story with bad magic, as it assures them that magic is confined to fiction and will not leak into their real lives. This is the most perverse form of magical thinking and the one least likely to be recognized as such. — Thomas Ligotti