Lomega Raiders Quotes & Sayings

We were talking the other evening about the phrases one uses when trying to comfort someone who is in distress. I told him that in English we sometimes say, 'I've been there.' This was unclear to him at first-I've been where? But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific loacation, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.
'So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked.
'Sometimes people live there for years,' I said. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes. — Dana Gioia

I got a skanky dog with more brains than you and bigger balls. (Nathan) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know? — Ayn Rand

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far. — Nancy Cartwright

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in. — Demi Lovato

Wadsworth Moor
Where the millstone of sky
Grinds light and shadow so purple-fine
And has ground it so long
Grinding the skin off the earth
Earth bleeds her raw true darkness
A land naked now as a wound
That the sun swabs and dabs
Where the miles of agony are numbness
And harebell and heather a euphoria — Ted Hughes

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. — Robert A. Heinlein

Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests. — Sergei Lavrov

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die. — Chuck Palahniuk

He's [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You'll see; he'll do something wrong in the end. He always does. — Lyndon B. Johnson