Moombaki Quotes & Sayings

While much of her true name lay beyond my knowledge of the Noongar language, as the minutes passed I understood that her name was also a history of her people, a sort of Bayeux Tapestry that bound myth with loves, births, deaths; hunts, battles, journeys; droughts, fires, storms; and names of every host within whose body Moombaki had sojourned. — David Mitchell

I thought you people had a manual for this kind of thing."
He laughed. "We have a manual. Magic doesn't. — Devon Monk

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. — Confucius

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming. — Shyam Selvadurai

If I saw my father's dead, great grand mother's dead and many other people's dead... So I can see and your's dead, I just see the planet without you. I just feel it, taste it, - it hurts me from this but this is the truth. — Deyth Banger

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility. — Elia Kazan

Success isn't always about triumph. — Shannon Messenger

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life. — Jerry Reed

Nothing can be cut away. Even the worst of our memories is part of the foundation that keeps us in the world. — Mark Lawrence

Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field. — Joanna Baillie

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! — Saint Francis De Sales

I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week. — Marcia Cross

How could a feeling that leaves you so hollow be a pain that is so sharp? — Miguel Syjuco

I haven't had any visions about this! This seems seriously vision-worthy! Powers, help me out!" She closed her eyes. "Oh, no! I see ... darkness ahead! — Tui T. Sutherland

I like retirement. — Barry Sanders

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable. — Julian Barnes