Lavaj Gaster Quotes & Sayings

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation. — Sidney Lanier

I have amazing parents and some really great friends that would kick my butt if I ever started acting different. — Jane Levy

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over. — Zhang Xin

Life's all about 'me' anyway — Paul Arden

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees. — Brandon Sanderson

At the lowest level of the investment banking hierarchy are the analysts. To find this young talent, the I-banks send their manicured young bankers out to the Whartons, Harvards and Princetons of the world to roll out the red carpet for the top undergraduates and begin the process of destroying whatever noble ideals the youngsters have left. — John Rolfe

These things happen. It is not the end of the world. — Geraldine McCaughrean

It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature. — Frederick Rolfe

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done. — Judi Dench

I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind. — Garth Nix

I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you. — Woody Allen