Morphlings Catching Quotes & Sayings

What was magic, after all, but something that happened at the snap of a finger? Where was the magic in that? It was mumbled words and weird drawings in old books, and in the wrong hands it was as dangerous as hell, but not one half as dangerous as it could be in the right hands. The universe was full of the stuff; it made the stars stay up and the feet stay down.

But what was happening now . . . this was magical. Ordinary men had dreamed it up and put it together, building towers on rafts in swamps and across the frozen spines of mountains. They'd cursed and, worse, used logarithms. They'd waded through rivers and dabbled in trigonometry. They hadn't dreamed, in the way people usually used the word, but they'd imagined a different world, and bent metal around it. And out of all the sweat and swearing and mathematics had come this . . . thing, dropping words across the world as softly as starlight. — Terry Pratchett

Please Say A Prayer For All Who are Broken Hearted And Grief In Despair. May They Find Peace In The Loving Arms Of God And Comfort In Our Prayers. May They Pray For Us When It's Our Turn To Need Help In Our Own Despair. — Timothy Pina

How do I shoot?" "Your finger through there. Feel that? But you only pull if you're sure that everything's right." "Why?" "Because you can't take it back." She — Andrew Pyper

Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive? — Ice Cube

This time, I sat next to a pixie girl called Takara, who had pinkish hair and wore a bright pink dress to match. She was the first forest-dweller I had seen wearing jewellery: she was wearing a necklace and bracelet of finely worked crystal beads. When she noticed my interest, she removed her bracelet and held it out to me.
"Sophiel, I would be so pleased if you would wear this!"
I was surprised by this kind and very selfless gesture; after all, I had not been admiring her jewels with any intention of asking her to part with them!
"You're very kind, Takara, but I was merely admiring your handiwork!" I said, trying politely to refuse her gift. "Mitsuko told me that you make your jewellery yourself. You're very talented, they're really lovely pieces, but I wouldn't want to take them away from you. It's you that makes these jewels really beautiful! — A.O. Esther

There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head. — Stephenie Meyer

Whatever you focus on expands, — Pam Grout

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time. — Friedrich St. Florian

All alone by the telephone. — Irving Berlin

You drink from a rabbit and you think I smell? — Veronica Rossi

Convention is a jealous god and, like Saturn, eats its babies. — Marty Rubin

The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it. — Tom Spanbauer

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. — Joan Didion

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed. — Andy Dick