Metamorphosed Limestone Quotes & Sayings

Never is he going to be his old self again. Never is he going to have his old resilience. Whatever inside him was given the task of mending the organism after it was so terribly assaulted, first on the road, then in the operating theatre, has grown too tired of the job, too overburdened. And the same holds for the rest of the team, the lungs, the heart, the muscles, the brain. They did for him what they could as long as they could; now they want to rest. — J.M. Coetzee

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist. — Kurt Vonnegut

And there would be more partings, more losses, more wounds, over and over, again and again. He could change his destiny a hundred times, and each time another loss or separation would be waiting for him on the other side. As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune. — Miyuki Miyabe

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game. — Ernest Cline

Engrave your pieces, Jo, and they'll always find their way back to you, said Willie. — Ruta Sepetys

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday. — Jon Gordon

For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN. — Connie Chung

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea. — Milan Kundera

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery. — Paul Simon

The core of my writing is not art but truth. — Philip K. Dick

So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way. — Jack McDevitt

Two women chasing him, ready and waiting for his call and the one that had buts at the end of every sentence was the one who turned him inside him out with a simple kiss. — Carolyn Brown