Mostanica Quotes & Sayings

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall. — George R R Martin

That's the gist of it. Everyone wants to believe in God, but when He does show up and starts talking to people, everyone calls them crazy. — D.F. Noble

It's true, he did look like the hero in all this, and for the most part, he was. What he did for this girl was a lot, but I knew from experience that lies have a way of coming back to haunt you. He may have done everything with the best intentions, but he still may not be able to escape how this all began. — Angela Richardson

All right. Maybe I can get you one soul. Perhaps a tax collector...'cept they ain't human. Would they work? Or would you need, like, three of them to make up one normal person's soul? -Lift — Brandon Sanderson

Men are forced to resort to ridiculous displays of bravado in front of women. — Kathleen Tessaro

He reached down from heaven and took me and drew me out of my great trials. He rescued me from deep waters. — Anonymous

Unicorns rule the world — Me

The way to Elfin is found on the path
That weaves through the Misty Forest
That lives between the Mountain of Vision
And the River of Reality — The Silver Elves

You may feel the human realm is a difficult place, but there is surely no better world to live in. You will find another only by going to the nonhuman; and the nonhuman realm would surely be a far more difficult place to inhabit than the human.

So if this best of worlds proves a hard one for you, you must simply do your best to settle in and relax as you can, and make this short life of ours, if only briefly, an easier place in which to make your home. Herein lies the poet's true calling, the artist's vocation. We owe our humble gratitude to all practitioners of the arts, for they mellow the harshness of our human world and enrich the human heart.

Yes, a poem, a painting, can draw the sting of troubles from a troubled world and lay in its place a blessed realm before our grateful eyes. — Soseki Natsume

Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment — A.R. Rahman

All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz. — Terry Teachout

How are you going to kiss a girl if you won't share her ice cream? p.203 The Rosie Project — Graeme Simsion

They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by chance a glimpse of an inner essence, only to forget what it was. It was this lost memory that pained us, reduced us to ruins, though still we struggled to be ourselves. — Orhan Pamuk

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress. — Geraldine Ferraro