Niespielak Quotes & Sayings

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls. — Plato

I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hey Kaname. Will you let me handle this?
Of course. I need only one Ichijo. You. — Matsuri Hino

Look, don't get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. I'm excited to meet him tonight. I'm dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I'd do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books. — Richelle Mead

A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately. — George Herbert

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake. — Lauren Wolk

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts — Roger Moore

Artists have no choice but to express their lives, — Anne Truitt

The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing. — Cory Booker

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it. — Charles Caleb Colton

She watched his pale, square hands on the map, the short almost stubby fingers, with their neatly trimmed nails and a sparse scattering of fine black hairs on the bottom section of each finger. Appalled, she felt a stirring of desire. You're pathetic as an adolescent, she savagely chided herself. Like a teenager who fancies the first teacher who says anything nice about your work. Grow up, Jordan! — Val McDermid

First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements. — Michel De Certeau

If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace. — Oscar Arias

He had never even glimpsed her. — Kim Edwards