Metastasised Quotes & Sayings

Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill. — Michael Ian Black

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight ... — Henry Taylor

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another. — Terry Pratchett

Danger is real, fear is a choice — Will Smith

ominous and disquieting. It seemed that the evil power in Mirkwood had — J.R.R. Tolkien

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing. — A. E. Hotchner

He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail. — E. M. Forster

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The bawling of babies, always in a way
Inappropriate - why should the love and innocent
Greet existence with wails? - is proof that not all
Is well. Dreams and deliveries never quite mesh. — Eugene H. Peterson

My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal. — Amy Hoggart

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, — Rudyard Kipling

Come against your will' is the toggle of the intellect; 'come willingly' is the spring-time of those who have lost their hearts. — Mevlana

Oh. Well was this your first time painting a live model?"
She nodded her head, with an almost guilty look on her face.
"What's it like?"
"Hard," she replied. — Zack Love

Any physical action, properly studied and practiced, could no doubt be accomplished with a reasonable amount of skill, if not flair. — Kim Stanley Robinson