Leges Sine Quotes & Sayings

He spoke in a calm and measured voice, and a small part of me found myself falling for him. This wasn't just a physical thing anymore. The man had strength of self and character, and damn if I didn't love it. — Karina Halle

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard. — Vikas Swarup

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there. — Michael Koryta

The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation. — John Madden

I'm very free with my sexuality, but not everywhere all the time. I pick and choose when I do nudity, and who I do it for when I'm working, and when I'm doing it. I've done nudity twice in a film. — Eva Mendes

The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered. — Haruki Murakami

Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this 'central experience is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love. Love, experienced thus is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together ... they are one with each other by being one with themselves. — Erich Fromm

You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow. — Wes Streeting

The telly is invaded
by hallelujah channels
and informercials,
both trying to sell
everything needed
to save you. — Emma Cameron

You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don't embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might serve to benefit and enhance your writing. That's damaging. Counterintuitive. Writing can be so incredibly lonely, and when you're alone with your thoughts for long enough to produce a hundred thousand words of your own headspace, it can be scary. Suffering is not good for your art. Mental health care is. So talk to someone other than your future readers about the problems you are facing. Someone you know and trust. There is no shame in asking for help. — Bryant A. Loney