Non Printable Quotes & Sayings

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines ... — Eleanor Clark

She could have written a treatise on the danger of dresses in about thirty seconds, but it wouldn't have been printable. — Michelle Sagara

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm. — David Jones

Thomas hesitated at first, but he knew he had to tell them everything. And there was no better time than the present. He sucked in a deep breath and started talking. — James Dashner

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;
it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources. — Shashi Tharoor

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it. — Christopher Hitchens

We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about. — M. Basil Pennington

Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.
[Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti;
Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat
Impetus.] — Statius

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met. — Ben Brantley

A healthy boundary creates controlled vulnerability. — Pia Mellody

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us. — Douglas Coupland

The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me. — Helen Exley

How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns? — Julian Barnes

His grip might bruise us and his teeth might mark us, but his heart would never. His heart is the best heart. — YellowBella

It's a common observation that all science fiction novels say as much about the time of their composition as they do about the future. As they wrote Hard to Be a God, the Strugatsky brothers were working under considerable political pressure. Following Khrushchev's infamous visit to an exhibition of abstract art in 1962 ("dog shit" was one of his more printable responses) a wave of panicked ideological house-cleaning swept through the Soviet Union's artistic establishment. For SF writers, as Boris Strugatsky remembers, this resulted in a reminder that the only truly orthodox subject was "the collision of two worlds. — Arkady Strugatsky