Longline Quotes & Sayings

I remember everything about that day, like the images have been burned into my brain by a branding iron. But I wish they would blow away in the wind. — Jessica Sorensen

I'd walked to school like it was any other day. Like my heart wasn't breaking. Like my head wasn't reeling and my feet weren't weighted down by the sudden and tragic onset of clinical depression, making each breath a trial, each step a struggle. I totally needed a car. — Darynda Jones

The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished. — Ming-Dao Deng

You can't teach court savvy — Dean Smith

Exit, pursued by a bear. — William Shakespeare

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared. — Hilma Wolitzer

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit."
(Analects 4.16) — Confucius

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. — David Mamet

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal. — Karen Marie Moning

Intuitive: The word conveys, I think, a diffuse annoyance at our inability to understand how we come by such knowledge. — Carl Sagan

Stop making shame a virtue. — Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

Don't deal in the possibilities of the possibility. — John Hayden

[Patriotism] ... is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did
and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn. — Mark Twain

When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real. Muse. — Pippa DaCosta

I don't know how to make peace with things, were each moment to tear itself away from time to give me a kiss. — Emil Cioran

Some gangs of friends formed subgroups of five, mirroring us, where each friend could have a favorite Duran without stepping on the toes or desires of the other four friends, because if you were an Andy fan, clearly you could not be friends with another Andy fan. That would not work. You could be friends with a Nick fan, however, because there was no conflict of interest. Both friends could live together in harmony with Nick and Andy on that designated fantasy desert island for ever and ever, without a hint of envy. — Nigel John Taylor