Mystogan Skyscraper Quotes & Sayings

If it wasn't for the elderly we wouldn't be were we are today. — Nettie Febus

I think that if I have a chance to go back, why not just go back all the way in history to the times of the pyramids or the Roman days? I think there are so many great historic times until now that I would like to get a little peek of those periods, rather than just 1984. Why limit yourself? — Arnold Schwarzenegger

How about you then, Brian, any action?'
'Not really.' This sounds a bit feeble, so I add, nonchalantly, There is this girl, Alice, and she's invited me to stay with her tomorrow, at her cottage, so . . .'
'Her cottage? says Spencer. 'What is she? A milkmaid?'
'You know, a house, in the country, her parents' . . .'
'So you're shagging her then?' asks Tone.
'It's platonic.'
'What's platonic mean then?' asks Spencer, even though he knows.
'It means she won't let him shag her,' says Tone. — David Nicholls

Surprise is sometimes the best advantage a warrior can have. — Terry Goodkind

The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadows of apparently irrevocable disaster. — H.G.Wells

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious. — Ignatius Of Loyola

Because they did not know that we'd loaded the bullets and put the gun in her hand, — John Green

I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it. — Nathan Fillion

When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated. — Clare Balding

Meanwhile a certain amount of moaning and groaning was coming from upstairs. Sophie kept muttering to the dog and ignored it. A loud, hollow coughing followed, dying away into more moaning. Crashing sneezes followed the coughing, each one rattling the window and all the doors. Sophie found those harder to ignore, but she managed. Poot-pooooot! went a blown nose, like a bassoon in a tunnel. The coughing started again, mingled with moans. Sneezes mixed with the moans and the coughs, and the sounds rose to a crescendo in which Howl seemed to be managing to cough, groan, blow his nose, sneeze, and wail gently all at the same time. The doors rattled, the beams in the ceiling shook, and one of Calcifer's logs rolled off onto the hearth.
"All right, all right, I get the message!" Sophie said, dumping the log back into the grate. "It'll be green slime next". — Diana Wynne Jones

Imma go to Starbucks in the morning for some coffee, if it ain't no girls there i won't buy no damn coffee! — Lil B

I've long been interested in the tale-within-a-tale phenomenon. I'm familiar with many tales which use this framework or the device of many people in one place, telling their stories, or multiple storytellers commenting on each others' stories with their own. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany. — Adolf Hitler

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? — Simon Raven