Nakamitsu Play Quotes & Sayings

The dinner bell rings, and everyone trots off, Frederick coming in last with his taffy-colored hair and wounded eyes, bootlaces trailing. Werner washes Frederick's mess tin for him; he shares homework answers, shoe polish, sweets from Dr. Hauptmann; they run next to each other during field exercises. A brass pin weighs lightly on each of their lapels; one hundred and fourteen hobnailed boots spark against pebbles on the trail. The castle with its towers and battlements looms below them like some misty vision of foregone glory. Werner's blood gallops through his ventricles, his thoughts on Hauptmann's transceiver, on solder, fuses, batteries, antennas; his boot and Frederick's touch the ground at the exact same moment. — Anthony Doerr

Keely's pulse quickened. A stab of apprehension. He was the same at any live performance, suddenly anxious for the players. So stupid; these people were professional muscicians. But the way his throat narrowed they could have all been kds at a school recital. His kids. — Tim Winton

Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. Okoye — Chinua Achebe

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions. — Robert Breault

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste. — Robert A. Heinlein

But there was one bully to rule them all, one bully to find them, one bully to bring them all and in the darkness pound them. — Michael Grant

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose. — Clarence Darrow

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come. — Salman Rushdie

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them. — Rumi

I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they will wonder.' 'Then — Charles Dickens

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. — Chuck Palahniuk

I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff. — Rob Reiner