Luminaires Quotes & Sayings

There are people who kill, and people who get killed. — Otsuichi

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future. — Laurie A. Helgoe

Equipment will never help you write a lot; only making a schedule and sticking to it will make you a productive writer. — Paul J. Silvia

I went to the surplus store on Santa Monica and Vine (in Los Angeles) and went and got me a Navy outfit, put the black tape under my eyes. I got me a whistle and went in there with a hat looking like a full-on drill sergeant. — Tyrese Gibson

The fact that the Conservatives are losing voters to UKIP while struggling to attract those who voted for other parties in 2010 suggests they have still not successfully shown what a Conservative government is for. This needs to be done on a broad front in a way that encompasses the economy and public services. — Michael Ashcroft

Parents who take care of their children will find peace. And children who take care of their parents will also find peace. — Danielle Barone

As a rule Uncle Giles took not the slightest interest in anyone or anything except himself and his own affairs - indeed was by this time all but incapable of absorbing even the smallest particle of information about others, unless such information had some immediate bearing on his own case. — Anthony Powell

Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long. — Morrie Schwartz.

One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me. "I've seen you out there every day for the past week, and everyone knows you stare at me all day in school, if you have something you want to say to me why don't you just say it to my face instead of sneaking around like a crook?" I considered my options. Either I could run away and never go back to school again, maybe even leave the country as a stowaway on a ship bound for Australia. Or I could risk everything and confess to her. The answer was obvious: I was going to Australia. I opened my mouth to say goodbye forever. And yet. What I said was: I want to know if you'll marry me. — Nicole Krauss

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics. — Ronald Coase

It was inevitable that the poacher and the counterfeiter would bond, sharing as they did a blanket contempt for government, taxes, homosexuals, immigrants, minorities, gun laws, assertive women and honest work. — Carl Hiaasen

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics. — Norman Mailer

I was a spiritual kid. — Kristin Chenoweth

Though my theory was books chose us, and not the other way around. — Rebecca Raisin