Legende Quotes & Sayings

Smash market vs. mass market: Indie authors delve deep into expressive vertical genres. Book stores hold 90-day-credit-return literature. Why wait? In five years, Indie authors will be both. — Peter Prasad

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened. — Hunter S. Thompson

New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults. — James Cagney

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach

Nice to eat you ... uhm ... meet you! — Lasky Kathryn

He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been very proper and just. It had been necessary for him to swallow swords that he might have a better throat for grapes. — Stephen Crane

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so. — William Strunk Jr.

Comfortable? Don't be. I believe in those moments where we grow comfortable is where we stop growing, and in order to keep evolving, God slips the rug from beneath our feet and makes us look up. — Christy Aldridge

We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done. — Emmet Fox

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

In Russia there are no native words for efficiency, challenge, engagement ring, have fun, or take care — Bill Bryson