Lanskoy Art Quotes & Sayings

I just want to stay away from people and read books. — John Green

There is something I've been meaning to ask you," she said as she handed Zack a bratwurst. It was a little awkward, but if Zack was the man she was going to marry, she needed to know what she was getting into. "Yes?" "That story about the fish. Is it true?" Zack's grin was roguish. "I don't know. What have you heard?" "Something about a hundred pounds of fish dumped on a merchant's fancy desk. Is it true?" Zack took a large bite of his sausage and watched her through laughing eyes as he chewed. How could she consort with a man with such a shocking reputation? She was a safety-and-security girl, and Zack was an untamed force of nature. He finished chewing and sent her a wicked grin. "It was trout," he said proudly. "And we've never had substandard fish palmed off on us since. — Elizabeth Camden

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. — Rob Pike

Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good. — Susan Moon

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it — David Halberstam

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. — William Butler Yeats

We're out." ...
A round of groans passed from my new group of friends, and I smiled that they were actually disappointed we were retiring. I waved to the girls. "Don't leave!" a few called out.
"My girl needs sex. I deliver," Lane said unabashedly. He looked at the guys, quirking his eyebrow in question. "What would you do?"
All three of them, Jax, Jace, and Cole, proceeded to point toward the exit. — Kimberly Lauren

Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
For in best understandings sin began,
Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
Are beasts in all but white integrity. — John Donne

when your consciousness or mental attitude shifts, remarkable things begin to happen. That shift is the ultimate business tool and life tool. — Guy Spier

She was brave from wine and unseasonable sunshine and the newfound closeness of home. — Claire Vaye Watkins

I may just start randomly hitting you over the head with shit. I'm liking concussed Paige. — Angela Graham

At last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning. — Margaret Atwood

Joshua tried to find the right words to explain how things were
how they'd always been. "It's like ... prairie dogs."
Ben quirked an eyebrow at him.
"You see the holes. 'N' you know the dogs are around, even if you don't see the dogs themselves."
"What the hell are you talkin' about?"
"Gay. Cowboys. They're there. Like a lot of single cowboys, they go into Billings once a month, only they ain't there so see women. There's no point in flingin' yourself around in public, 's all. — Eli Easton