Nectar In A Sieve Suffering Quotes & Sayings

It is in the nature of the universe that the person who always keeps you waiting ten minutes will, on the day you are ten minutes tardy, have been ready ten minutes early and will make a point of not mentioning this. — Terry Pratchett

I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day. — John Searles

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action. — Bryant H. McGill

In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work ... — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. — Adam Clymer

If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games. — William J. Clinton

She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it? — Soren Kierkegaard

I heard words
and words full
of holes
aching. — Robert Creeley

I got married and basically forgot about Elvis. Then Speedway came. That was the most fun of all, to see him every day all those weeks. — Nancy Sinatra

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost. — V.S. Naipaul

You think a 'lord' in front of your name is going to make that face any less ugly? — Brandon Sanderson

-You know
Eddis hesitated, not sure how far to push the Attolian Queen.
-Go on. Attolia inclined her head.
-I was going to say that you look like a polecat when you smile like that.
-Do I? Attolia still smiled. -You look a little vulpine yourself.
The two queens sat for a moment in happy agreement. — Megan Whalen Turner