Nimis Quotes & Sayings

...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks. — Jim Crumley

Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it. — Louise Penny

Josh stared at Kate. She was watching the happy couple, smiling. The warm spring breeze caught her hair and ruffled it like a shining curtain in an open window. It also caught her dress, flipping up the front and giving him an eyeful of long, slender thigh. He could remember planting kisses up that thigh, listening to her sighs as he refused to stop there. She looked ravishing, and all of a sudden he felt a surge of naughtiness, like a schoolboy passing an open box of sweets.

He walked up to her, holding a handful of confetti. Slowly he pulled the front of her dress forward and stuffed the paper in the bodice, his fingers lingering against her warm, slightly damp skin. Then he patted the red satin carefully flat. Probably for slightly longer than was necessary. — Serenity Woods

For a second, Prophet thought Doc had told him. Then he realized that he must've been giving off a come home now vibe . . . and obviously, message received. He buried his face against Tom's shoulder for a few more seconds before pulling back. "John's alive. Mal heard his voice. He's alive and well, and I'm going to have to kill him. — S.E. Jakes

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it. — Susie Orbach

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach

Fear is a cheap emotion, but I'm not going to tell you there's nothing to be frightened of. If Alfred Packer's cannibalism victims woke up the morning of their deaths humming "Don't Worry, Be Happy," they were mistaken. — Mark Darrah

The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic III, who had been rightly named the Peaceful, not for the reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having constantly been beaten, he had always been forced to make it. — Alexandre Dumas

My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922. — Judy Gold

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity. — Albert Einstein

Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] — Solon

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much. — John Green

She was stuffing her innards back. Sewing herself up, putting her skin, her make-up, her party frock back on. — Louise Penny

I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I might be dying. And it was being alone' ... 'To me,' she said, 'the scariest thing is oblivion. Being, and then not being. — Patricia Gaffney

Whatever happens, remember that I will love you forever," he says. "Even if my spirit is dispersed and my consciousness released to the universe ... whatever is left of me will never stop loving you. — Amy Plum