Nikonorow Quotes & Sayings

Tragedy, after all, is the invisible hand that spawns reflection, and reflection bears its fruit in the deepening of one's character. — Richard Harris

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art
although it may possibly be very good journalism? — Sherwood Anderson

Name one civilization led by two people - a pair. It doesn't happen. Do you know the fastest path to creating enemies? Forge a partnership. — Veronica Rossi

It was clear that he didn't remember me from one day to the next. The note clipped to his sleeve simply informed him that it was not our first meeting, but it could not bring back the memory of the time we had spent together. — Yoko Ogawa

We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment. — Joan D. Chittister

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice. — Harvey Fierstein

There's nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see. — Solange Nicole

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear. — Horace

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality ... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful. — Dan Simmons

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart — Ayn Rand

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them? ... How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence? — Simon Van Booy

She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know - she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn't put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow. — Matthew Quick

There is no number so unlucky as thirteen. Once, in Valhalla, there was a feast for twelve gods, but Loki, the trickster god, went uninvited and he played his evil games, persuading Hod the Blind to throw a sprig of mistletoe at his brother, Baldur. Baldur was the favorite god, the good one, but he could be killed by mistletoe and so his blind brother threw the sprig and Baldur died and Loki laughed, and ever since we have known that thirteen is the evil number. Thirteen birds in the sky are an omen of disaster, thirteen pebbles in a cooking pot will poison any food placed in the pot, while thirteen at a meal is an invitation to death. Thirteen spears against a fortress could only mean defeat. Even the Christians know thirteen is unlucky. Father Beocca told me that was because there were thirteen men at Christ's last meal, and the thirteenth was Judas. — Bernard Cornwell