Nurple From Garfield Quotes & Sayings

He's moving with such purpose that William is scared he might just speed right off the rooftop, like the roadrunner from the cartoons. Or (the image comes with Magritteish lucidity) spread his arms and flap up into another life. — Garth Risk Hallberg

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying. — Langston Hughes

Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and generate vast amounts of unnecessary suffering. Pleasure is the only real ethical guide. It returns our conversations about ethics to the natural context where these conversations belong: the well-being of sentient beings. — Hiram Crespo

I meant I like feeling you're mine. — Jodi Picoult

Obedience is the key to every door. — George MacDonald

I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague. — Tony DiTerlizzi

With post like yours, who needs enemies?" he said. — Rachel Joyce

Everyone knows that when advancing into danger, the soprano goes first. They are your infantry, while the altos and tenors are your cavalry, and the bass your artillery. — Rick Riordan

Despite one's inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it. No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime's calculated and incessant propaganda. — William L. Shirer

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer. — Glenn Roeder

The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does. — James Russell Lowell