Luitwieler William Quotes & Sayings

They sat on the outcropping of stone and at bread and fruit. Kasta watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place than another. It rose and fell again. It flowed, like water.
"Is this what the sea is like?" Kasta asked, and they both turned to her, surprised. "Does the sea move the way this grass moves?"
"It's like the sea," she said.
Giddon's eyes on her were incredulous.
"What? Is it such a strange thing to say?"
"It's a strange thing for you to say." He shook his head. He gathered their bread and fruit, then rose. "The Lienid fighter is filling your mind with romantic notions. — Kristin Cashore

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens. — Chinua Achebe

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere. — Mahatma Gandhi

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. — Eric Hobsbawm

There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch. — Vladimir Nabokov

We've all crashed; we see crashes every race and we know it's something we have to deal with. It's BMX - it can happen at anytime. Nothing's for sure in this sport, if I've learned anything. — Tory Nyhaug

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer. — Maya Angelou

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. — Robert Breault