Natsume Tsuchimikado Quotes & Sayings

A lot happens in our everyday life, but it always happens within the same routine, and more than anything else it has changed my perspective of time. For, while previously I saw time as a stretch of terrain that had to be covered, with the future as a distant prospect, hopefully a bright one, and never boring at any rate, now it is interwoven with our life here and in a totally different way. Were I to portray this with a visual image it would have to be that of a boat in a lock: life is slowly and ineluctably raised by time seeping in from all sides. Apart from the details, everything is always the same. And with every passing day the desire grows for the moment when life will reach the top, for the moment when the sluice gates open and life finally moves on. — Karl Ove Knausgard

There was silence on the other end. The static crackle from one hundred kilometres of telephone lines. Crows sitting on them, shivering, while people's conversations darted past under their feet. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking. — Mark Simpson

I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids. — Rick Riordan

Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading. — Dan B. Allender

Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily. — Aoife O'Donovan

The fact that I am marrying the man of my dreams is all that matters. — Anna Bell

We need to support these women who are in crisis pregnancy situations. — Kathy Ireland

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time. — Paul Weller

I'm not going to have a husband anyway," said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage. — Margaret Atwood

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. — Nikos Kazantzakis

This speech was one of the crucial blows of Connie's life. It killed something in her. — D.H. Lawrence