Laustav Quotes & Sayings

In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011. — John Corey Whaley

And oh my God, who brought that goddamn guitar? I want to kill them. Do you know how you can tell who the douche bag is at the party? It's the guy who starts playing the acoustic guitar. — Robin Benway

I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing. — Colm Feore

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?" Elend was silent. "I make my own choice," he finally said. "And I leave the others to make their own as well. — Brandon Sanderson

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!
The frontier town and citadel of night!
The watershed of Time, from which the streams
Of Yesterday and To-morrow take their way,
One to the land of promise and of light,
One to the land of darkness and of dreams! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him. — Francine Rivers

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city. — Barry Eisler

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her. — George Bernard Shaw

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. — Audre Lorde

For gods' sake, Strider," Torin snapped. "Open your mouth and form some words. While you're at it, stop staring at the angel like he's a tasty treat. — Gena Showalter

That's what all painting is about, its space and light occupied by human presences. — Leon Kossoff

Then nothing worries you?" "Only being sent away from you. You're my religion. You're all I've got. — Ernest Hemingway,

Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose. — Lil' Kim