Letterforms Quotes & Sayings

Sweetie, she-warriors dont scream. We wow our men with a look, tame them with a smile. — P.C. Cast

In Paris the swaying lanterns are lit in the streets; lights shine through water, fuzzy, diffuse. Saint-Just sits by an insufficient fire, in a poor light. He is a Spartan after all, and Spartans don't need home comforts. He has begun his report, his list of accusations; if Robespierre saw it now, he would tear it up, but in a few days' time it will be the very thing he needs. Sometimes he stops, half-glances over his shoulder. He feels someone has come into the room behind him; but when he allows himself to look, there is nothing to see. It is my destiny, he feels, forming in the shadows of the room. It is the guardian angel I had, long ago when I was a child. It is Camille Desmoulins, looking over my shoulder, laughing at my grammar. He pauses for a moment. He thinks, there are no living ghosts. He takes hold of himself. Bends his head over his task. His pen scratches. His strange letterforms incise the paper. His handwriting is minute. He gets a lot of words to the page. — Hilary Mantel

Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it veru properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending. — W. Somerset Maugham

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. — Nate Silver

The Mac, on the other hand, would end up being as "insanely great" as Jobs and his acolytes could possibly make it - but it would not ship for another sixteen months, way behind schedule. — Walter Isaacson

The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby. — Ann Romney