Maternelle De Tot Quotes & Sayings

Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people. — George R R Martin

Why can you see the stars at night, but not the light ... — A. Witness

Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach. — Juliana Spahr

So wait, shooting someone seventeen times isn't okay, but shooting him seventeen times with a fifteen-round magazine doesn't raise questions? — Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

It was on the tip of my tongue to say something snide, something that would hurt him, but somehow I couldn't. It would be like kicking Bambi in the teeth. — Marshall Thornton

To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope. — Fred Rogers

Now put your shields before your hearts and fight / With hearts more proof than shields. Advance, my fellows! — William Shakespeare

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led. — Thomas Carlyle

There are more than enough
to fight and oppose;
why waste good time
fighting the people you like? — Morrissey

It was a sin to break a deathbed promise.
Arin left without making one. — Marie Rutkoski

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records. — Ryan Adams

Populous cities are destroyed by earthquakes, and desolated by pestilence. Ambition is every where devoting its millions to incalculable calamity. Superstition, in a thousand shapes, is employed in brutalizing and degrading the human species, and fitting it to endure without a murmur the oppression of its innumerable tyrants. All this is abstractedly neither good nor evil because good and evil are words employed to designate that peculiar state of our own perceptions, resulting from the encounter of any object calculated to produce pleasure or pain. Exclude the idea of relation, and the words good and evil are deprived of import. — Christopher Hitchens

I rang the bell of this small bed-and breakfast place, whereupon a lady appeared at an outside window. "What do you want?", she asked. "I want to stay here", I replied. "Well, stay there then", she said and closed the window. — Chic Murray