Mggpx Quotes & Sayings

Kizzy wanted to be a woman who would dive off the prow of a sailboat into the sea, who would fall back in a tangle of sheets, laughing, and who could dance a tango, lazily stroke a leopard with her bare foot, freeze an enemy's blood with her eyes, make promises she couldn't possibly keep, and then shift the world to keep them. She wanted to write memoirs and autograph them at a tiny bookshop in Rome, with a line of admirers snaking down a pink-lit alley. She wanted to make love on a balcony, ruin someone, trade in esoteric knowledge, watch strangers as coolly as a cat. She wanted to be inscrutable, have a drink named after her, a love song written for her, and a handsome adventurer's small airplane, champagne-christened Kizzy, which would vanish one day in a windstorm in Arabia so that she would have to mount a rescue operation involving camels, and wear an indigo veil against the stinging sand, just like the nomads.
Kizzy wanted. — Laini Taylor

This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all. — Scott Berkun

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect. — Charles Dickens

The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always
known it. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. — Nancy B. Brewer

The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is. — Keiichi Sigsawa

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job. — Drew Carey

Her first step toward this end was to cook dinner on Monday evening. In all of her visions of herself as a wife, she would at least sometimes make meals other than canned soup and sandwiches. — Noelle Adams

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive. — Ray Bradbury

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly. — Soren Kierkegaard

Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies. — Dana Gould

I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings. — Anonymous