Nguyen Thien Ngan Quotes & Sayings

I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more. Yet, for a long time, I treated you distantly, and sought your company rarely. I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance: besides, I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade-the sweet charm of freshness would leave it. I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom; but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem. — Charlotte Bronte

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature. — Edward Hirsch

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me. — Patti LuPone

I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves. — Jess Glynne

To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside. — L.J. Vanier

I felt the distance and stillness of that sprawled dawn like some endless sky waking inside me, flared against the laughter. — Don DeLillo

I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed. — Mary Shelley

But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips. — Catherynne M Valente

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too. — Mike Tyson