Llort Quotes & Sayings

Noboru tried to compare the corpse confronting the world so nakedly with what might have seemed the unsurpassably naked figures of his mother and the sailor; by comparison, they weren't naked enough. They were still swaddled in skin. Even that marvellous hom and the great wide world whose expanse it had limned couldn't possibly have penetrated as deeply as this ... the pumping of the bared heart placed the peeled kitten in direct and tingling contact with the kernel of the world. — Yukio Mishima

Dreams have a way of turning into nightmares. — Erin Morgenstern

I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time. — Payne Stewart

The temper of the multitude is fickle — Niccolo Machiavelli

I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies). — Frances Trollope

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy. — Michael Buble

A free ride is life's most difficult journey. — James Cook

It was con; my mind was blank; I only wanted a halfpint of Grandad and six or seven tall cool beers ... — Charles Bukowski

Try - Takes the infinitive: "try to mend it," not "try and mend it." Students of the language will argue that 'try and' has won through and become idiom. Indeed it has, and it is relaxed and acceptable. But 'try to' is precise, and when you are writing formal prose, try and write 'try to. — William Strunk Jr.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use. — J.G. Ballard

The elevator door opens right into the loft. I was counting on those extra few seconds of hallway before facing the party, the party we are now part of and in, a party with people talking and laughing and having a party time. I think, I am a solid, trying to do a liquid's job. — Melissa Bank

Once again I was thunderstruck - but this time by a feeling of profound relief, for I had been redeemed from oblivion. More, the error that caused me to live as an unwitting impostor for so many years had been corrected at last. I had been made whole as a person - not again but for the very first time. — Daniel Quinn

Every person has a season for knowledge. — Elana Johnson

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result. — Catherine Ponder

It's my job to help people so that God can continue to help them live out the mission that they have ... they've got to be healthy to do that. — Lee Haney