Mauretania Apartments Quotes & Sayings

The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will. — Miles Watson

My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric. That's exactly what she says: telluric — Italo Calvino

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that. — Bruce Beresford

I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey. — Erin Morgenstern

When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me. — Carrot Top

Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open. — Jeanine Tesori

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations. — Francine Rivers

I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly. — Chris Liddell

But, curiously, though Mr. Norrell was able to work feats of the most breath-taking wonder, he was only able to describe them in his usual dry manner, so that Sit Walter was left with the impression that the spectacle of half a thousand stone figures in York Cathedral all speaking together had been rather a dull affair and that he had been fortunate in being elsewhere at the time. — Susanna Clarke

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them. — H.P. Lovecraft

The sense of success -the most agreeable emotion of the human heart — Henry James

Love as a flower loves the morning sun.
Love with kindness, expect no return. — Debasish Mridha

I hate mankind. I hate what we do to each other, how we wage war, how we 'fight' for peace, how we say we love each other then stab each other in the back. — L.V. Birdsong

The problem was that he had fallen in love with her. After considering the situation, he discovered it was useless trying to figure out how it had happened. Bewitched from the beginning with her beauty, her wit and her honesty had drawn him in further. She was so unlike anyone - any woman - he had ever met before, and the emotions had simply crept up on him. He was in the middle before he had been aware he had begun. — L.L. Diamond