Luiteletubby Quotes & Sayings

Why didn't you become a sorcerer, Geralt? Weren't you ever attracted by the Art? Be honest.'
'I will. I was.'
'Why, then, didn't you follow the voice of that attraction?'
'I decided it would be wiser to follow the voice of good sense.'
'Meaning?'
'Years of practice in the witcher's trade have taught me not to bite off more than I can chew. Do you know, Vilgefortz, I once knew a dwarf, who, as a child, dreamed of being an elf. What do you think; would he have become one had he followed the voice of attraction? — Andrzej Sapkowski

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. Just as in the ceremony the magician first of all marked out the limits of the area where the sacred powers were to come into play, so every work of art describes its own circumference which closes it off from actuality. — Theodor W. Adorno

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky. — Max De Pree

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline. — Libbie Hickman

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut. — Rousas John Rushdoony

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness. — Lord Mountbatten

I was so awash in sensory overload that I was caught completely unaware when he did push me away — Richelle Mead

Sometimes I can still sleep it off, my fear. My dreams are gentle now even when they are about being mugged, robbed and knocked down, even when I am pressing my car key into a bit of yielding earth. But often in the afternoons I wake after a nap with an awful sense of its being over and that it never meant much; I never had a life. The valuable sweetness and the hard work are infected by the fact of death: they no longer seem to have been so wonderful, but they are all I had. And then I want to be comforted. I want my old, unthreatening forms of silence, and comedy-and-cowardice. I want breath and stories and the world. — Harold Brodkey

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter — John Keats

There's stuff that everybody does that they don't know they do. — Nik Kershaw

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. — Adlai E. Stevenson

And, like most shy men, he satisfied his normal needs in the anonymity of the prostitute. There is great safety for a shy man with a whore. Having been paid for, and in advance, she has become a commodity, and a shy man can be gay with her and even brutal to her. Also, there is none of the horror of the possible turndown which shrivels the guts of timid men. — John Steinbeck

The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. — Thomas Reed