Leccinellum Quotes & Sayings

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore

The right thing to do is to thank them for their work, let people know that they're moving on, and ... you don't really have to explain all their personal details. It's more important to leave them with their dignity ... and let them go on to live another day. Remember, what you say at that meeting, that's their reputation. — Ben Horowitz

A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet. — Mort Sahl

Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red - His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide. — John Kendrick Bangs

Being a lad is what I'm about. — Liam Gallagher

I had noticed the birds as I crossed the field but I just realized then that I hadn't heard a sound out of them since I had left the grass. All around me crows hopped along, snagging dropped kernels of corn, their heads tilting to the sides so that they could keep a glassy eye on me. It was damn strange. Crows are noisy birds, always yelling at you like a rude construction worker whistling as women pass by. Stereotypes, yeah, but based on fact. Crows are never quiet. — Kurt M. Criscione

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains. — James Baldwin

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. — Henry David Thoreau

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life. — James Mercer

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime. — Diane Mott Davidson

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid. — Albert Pike

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again. — Daphne Zuniga

Value investing by its very nature is contrarian. — Seth Klarman

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. — Eckhart Tolle