Numidicus Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No: What the heck happened?
Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture? — Alyson Noel

At best noise, at worse a potentially damaging input. — Alastair Reynolds

But the reason that writers like Harlan and Lee don't outline is that they enjoy the serendipity, the surprises that arise when they're not constricted by the steel girdle of an outline. And I get that too. Some of the best plot twists in my work have been ones that I didn't plan on, including the ending to PARANOIA. One of the great pleasures of writing fiction is living in the story so that you "experience" it the way your characters do. — Joseph Finder

Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion; and he could recommend matrimony only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty. — Edward Gibbon

There was a young woman whose stammer
Was atrocious, and so was her grammar,
But they were not improved
When her husband was moved
To knock out her teeth with a hammer. — Edward Gorey

Could I see myself with a British boyfriend? Absolutely. The way they wear their pants is so cute. Guys don't do it in America. Their style is cute. I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like. — Kelly Rowland

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. That's from the original Godfather, — Stephen King

Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is: Do you have the guts to do something about it? — C. Nzingha Smith

Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to. — Rossana Condoleo

When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true. — Eric Schneiderman

Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them. — Gilbert Gottfried

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. — Johann Sebastian Bach

Fashion fades, style is eternal. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. — George S. McGovern

Generally, the lie is a denatured truth.Drama occurs when this truth is still nonexistent, and it must become exitent for the human being. — Marieta Maglas