Mashini Strashilki Quotes & Sayings

To read great books does not mean one becomes 'bookish'; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance. — John Cowper Powys

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society. — Simon Winchester

Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected. — Ariel Meadow Stallings

the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the books Vernon had brought, a thriller called utopia. — Douglas Preston

9The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan r with all power and false signs and wonders, 10and with all wicked deception for s those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11Therefore t God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe u what is false, 12in order that all may be condemned v who did not believe the truth but w had pleasure in unrighteousness. — Anonymous

Nowadays there are so many stars on television.There are all these generic stars now.There's Dave Caruso ... Dave Caruso's kind of fun: "I know he killed your family ... but he won't do it again." He says the stupidest sh*t. "I know he shot your children, but he won't do it any more." There isn't really a recognisable personality out there. — Pablo Francisco

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

You've got a lot to say for the one who walked away. — Stacy Morris