Nmbrs Quotes & Sayings

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.
To date, I had made three. — Melika Dannese Lux

Mina, trust me, it's better if we don't discuss this anymore. Words have power and it makes it that much easier for the Story to find you. — Chanda Hahn

This book is entirely dedicated to my wife, Robin Sullivan.
Some have asked how it is I write such strong women without resorting to putting swords in their hands. It is because of her.
She is Arista.
She is Thrace.
She is Modina.
She is Amilia.
And she is my Gwen.
This series has been a tribute to her.
This is your book, Robin.
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world.
ELTON JOHN, BERNIE TAUPIN — Michael J. Sullivan

You all know what Class Seven does?" "You blow shit up," Travers supplied in a long-suffering voice that drew snickers from the rest of the group. "All kinds of shit," Everett growled with relish, the gleam returning to his eyes in full force. — Abigail Roux

One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted. — Veronica Webb

This [worldly suffering] is indeed the result of a flawed-vision. When this flawed-vision goes away, the world will be seen "As it is". By sitting with the 'Experienced Person' whose flawed-vision is gone, our flawed-vision will go away. Nothing else will make it go away. — Dada Bhagwan

Dance is the stepchild of the arts. — Twyla Tharp

Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even more moves, were repeated endlessly. True novelties were becoming scarcer, and sometimes these 'opening' novelties didn't appear until well into the middlegame. (A master-level friend once proudly showed me a novelty he'd discovered at move twenty-seven of a very well-trodden chess opening, and it's said that even as far back as the 1950's Mikhail Botvinnik had some openings memorised past the thirtieth move). — Steve Lopez

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves. — David Brooks

Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead. — Alexei Panshin

Men were often far different in their roles as fathers than they were as suitors, the memories of which kept them, out of necessity, both vigilant and violent, and even in tender moments, to their daughters. — James Anderson

The miraculous power of the healing we create through crisis can be as stunning as looking at the sun. — Laura Day