Menkopolhukam Quotes & Sayings

I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when it was completely done and in printed galleys, I was surprised by how uninterested in the passage of time and history the book seemed to be. Even though you can feel it all there, that's just not what it's focused on. — Danielle Dutton

Like a poem that's aware
of the silence of things
you speak so as not to see me — Alejandra Pizarnik

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

I exist as I am, that is enough" Song of Myself by Walt Whitman — Penelope Douglas

Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. — Theodore J. Hoover

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong

I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it. — Aaron Tveit

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden. — Lori Lansens

Justlikethat, the brother dematerialized out of the alley, and Rhage knew better than to think that the pair of them would ever speak of it again. And man, that was so V - the SOB was capable of great kindness and empathy, but always at arm's length, as if he were afraid of getting too entangled in emotion. He was always there for the people he loved, though. Always. "Thank you, my brother," Rhage said to the thin air where the male of worth had stood. "Thank you as ever. — J.R. Ward

Treat the earth kindly, my friends, and it will give you comfort, security, and all a man may need. If you plant a flake of gold in the earth, will anything come of it? But plant a seed and it will repay you many times over. — Louis L'Amour

Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself. — Jorge Luis Borges

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction or what appears to be nonaction. That's a hard concept for Western audiences ... We wanted to show a kind of moral action, a spiritual action, an emotional action. Some people will pick up on it; some won't. — Martin Scorsese

In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till wildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies,
The angels with us unawares. — Gerald Massey

Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled - though as we'll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they'll just keep coming back again and again. — Cacilda Jetha