Maligo In English Quotes & Sayings

I am a wordy writer, and often churn out pages on end without advancing the plot a jot. Hence I try to take my cue from a childhood impatience with any device that doesn't get somewhere. Even in his sprightly youth, Clippity had a problem with running in place - just like my first drafts - when the surface was too slick. As a kid, I was ingenious enough to smear green Plasticine on his rear hooves. Thus I discovered the importance of traction, as handy a concept in literature as for wind-up toys. — Lionel Shriver

Strangefellows's owner and bartender was a thin pale streak of misery who only wore black because no-one had come up with a darker colour yet. — Simon R. Green

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller — Mahmoud Darwish

My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever. — Lou Doillon

People can be so annoying sometimes. With all their stupid opinions and hidden agendas. But dogs? Dogs don't have any agendas. They're as honest and open and devoted as you can get. And that's why they'll always cheer you up. They'll always love you. No matter how badly you screw up. — Jessica Brody

The future was always before you. That was kind of the point of the future. — Kate Hattemer

The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic. — Ernest Belfort Bax

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man. — Ray Romano

I could read and walk four miles an hour. — Orison Swett Marden

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty! — Alex Trebek

You should love one another and behave lovingly
because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one
another with love and humility. Love is the essence. — Prem Rawat

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements. — John Climacus

For anthropologists, even the exotic's not exotic, let alone the everyday. — Tom McCarthy

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight. — Jodie Sweetin

Every time he touched her, the touch felt new, like something they had just invented together. — Sarah Rees Brennan