Legatio Quotes & Sayings

Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.' — Warren Ellis

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature. — Rene Dubos

I was born into an ordinary, modern existence in 1945, an only child to decent parents of no irregular point of view, no particular sense of their place in history's continuum, just two people afloat on the world and expectant like most others in time, without a daunting conviction about their own consequence. — Richard Ford

Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life. — Edward Joseph Young

An angel sat on one shoulder, a devil on the other. Both of them wore my face. — Michelle Hodkin

She worked up her most blinding smile, the one that could stop traffic and launch a thousand ships, that could destroy a man or make him feel a thousand feet tall. "Hello, Brother Jacob. — Alisha Rai

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. — Frances Mayes

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns. — Kurt Vonnegut

The mind is a strange thing: it works in secret. Oftentimes the most important decisions in life are made while you're not paying attention. — Nikolai Grozni

I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father. — Tyler Perry

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio. — George Harrison

Yet I thought I saw her stand,
A shadow there at my feet,
High over the shadowy land. — Alfred Tennyson

Only he who has the power to punish can pardon. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Error is created; truth is eternal. — William Blake

There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well — Capers Jones