Nonius Horses Quotes & Sayings

She saw that they felt themselves alone in that crowded room. And Vronsky's face, always so firm and independent, held that look that had struck her, of bewilderment and humble submissiveness, like the expression of an intelligent dog when it has done wrong.
Anna smiled, and her smile was reflected by him. She grew thoughtful, and he became serious. Some supernatural force drew Kitty's eyes to Anna's face. She was enchanting in her simple black dress, enchanting were her round arms with their bracelets, enchanting was her firm neck with its thread of pearls, fascinating the straying curls of her loose hair, enchanting the graceful, light movements of her little feet and hands, enchanting was that lovely face in its animation, but there was something terrible and cruel about her charm. — Leo Tolstoy

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo. — Mark Twain

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people. — Isamu Akasaki

There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose. — Amos Oz

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger. — David Starr Jordan

Who are you?", my answer would be: "Nothing in particular. Yet, I am. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn. — William Hull

Have more than thou showest, speak less than though knowest, lend less than thou owest, ride more than though goest, learn more than thou trowest, set less than thou throwest. — William Shakespeare

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place. — Jodi Picoult

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine. — David Friedman

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable ... . — F Scott Fitzgerald

All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it. — Robin Hobb

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut. — Jacqueline Susann

Good Fiction hangs a story of a framework or lies that tells an emotional truth. — Marie White Small

Yet I was myself in no way prepared to accept this news as final: there was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible. That was why I needed to be alone. After — Joan Didion