Mineland Quotes & Sayings

Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey. — H.M. Tomlinson

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message. — Karen Thompson Walker

Money is a kind of poetry. — Wallace Stevens

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but ... defeat with God is not defeat. — William Faulkner

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious. — Muriel Spark

I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable. — Lindsay Price

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know. — Yoko Ono

Conan stared at the hand holding the pendant. The grim god of his Cimmerian northcountry, Crom, Lord of the Mound, gave a man only life and will. What he did with them, or failed to do, was up to him alone. Life and will. — Robert Jordan

I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to *dream*. Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her. — Stephenie Meyer

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read." — Babatunde Adebimpe

Base is the slave that pays. — William Shakespeare

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat. — Alva Myrdal

Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry. — Pope Paul VI

You're going to ruin me. — Kenya Wright