Oarecum Parte Quotes & Sayings

I saw that the garden had obeyed the jungle law, even as the woods had done. The rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twisted and entwined with bracken, and they had entered into alien marriage with a host of nameless shrubs, poor, bastard thing that clung about their roots as though conscious of their spurious origin. A lilac had mated with a copper beech, and to bind them yet more closely to one another the malevolent ivy, always an enemy to grace, had thrown her tendrils about the pair and made them prisoners. — Daphne Du Maurier

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging. — Nicholas Sparks

Davos had often heard it said that the wizards of Valyria did not cut and chisel as common masons did, but worked stone with fire and magic as a potter might work clay. — George R R Martin

We Americans are too often like children, steeped in moral tales that lack complexity and nuanced meaning.

(from the foreword in The War I survived Was Vietnam by Michael Uhl) — Steve Rees

Tears are words waiting to be spoken — Paulo Coelho

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead. — Peter Cushing

Furi stood by the bed. He never broke eye contact as he kicked off his shoes, then leisurely removed each article of clothing. Furi was stark naked as he waited for Syn's next order. How the tables have turned. "Get — A.E. Via

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on. — Sarah Winman

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop. — Alfred Polgar

One of the greatest forms of success is to be able to help others accomplish their own success. — Jon Jones