Montibus Quotes & Sayings

I'm a science goober. — Mary Roach

It may look as though I do not know how to start. Funny sight, the elderly gentleman who comes lumbering by, jowl flesh flopping, in a valiant dash for the last bus, which he eventually overtakes but is afraid to board in motion and so, with a sheepish smile, drops back, still going at a trot. Is it that I dare not make the leap? It roars, gathers speed, will presently vanish irrevocably around the corner, the bus, the motorbus, the mighty montibus of my tale. Rather bulky imagery, this. I am still running. — Vladimir Nabokov

But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase. — Tove Jansson

This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one center. — Henry David Thoreau

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair. — Bryant McGill

One thing Hal had learned was that they had to try to keep moving forward, keep trying to communicate and understand their differences. Pretending they didn't exist wasn't the answer. — Labbe, Marguerite

I work so much, I miss the sun shine away. I sleep so little, Watch the stars fade into day. — Tegan Quin

I have a girlfriend, Kayn. Her name is Chloe. She just doesn't know it yet, He smiled; he couldn't help himself, he knew it irritated her to no end. (The Children of Ankh series) — Kim Cormack

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page. — Charles De Lint

did not recognize that any of the fault — Sarah Lark

And I open to him, a flower to the rain. — Rick Yancey

It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories. — Scottie Pippen

If it weren't for supplies, I'd never go back down to town. But a man has to do what a man has to do. Hard to live like a king without toilet paper.
Astamur — Ilona Andrews

Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits. — Rhea Perlman