Openhand Quotes & Sayings

It's not that I want you to be a certain way
don't you want a boyfriend?"
"Why bother with that? Let's find incubi."
"Incubi?"
"Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"
her voice dropped conspiratorially
"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of. — Holly Black

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness. — Terry Eagleton

There's a light, I still see it
There's a hand still holding me
Even when I don't believe it — Danny Gokey

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. — Alison Bechdel

That Figure so impressd it self upon my Mind that I have been in a manner walking towards it all my Life. Then I peered into Wendel Dietterlin his Architectura, and there were unveiled to me the several Orders: of the Tuscan, which is now mine own, I was then mov'd by its Strangeness and Awefulness; the obscured Shapes, the Shaddowes and the massie Openings so in-chanted my Spirit that when looking on them I imagined my self to be lock'd in some dark and Enclosed space. The heavinesse of Stone did so oppress me that I was close to Extinction, and I fancied that I could see in the Engraver's lines the sides of Demons, crumbled Walls, and half-humane Creatures rising from the Dust. There was some thing that waited for me there, already in Ruines. — Peter Ackroyd

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim ... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor' ... — Warren Farrell

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. — Graham Greene

My family is like America; we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders. — R. YS Perez

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large ... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all. — H.P. Lovecraft

Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Carhart didn't see how running a massive smuggling organization could be boring but then again he wasn't a sociopathic action junkie who didn't plan farther than the next few days. — Santino Hassell

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative. — Patton Oswalt

What's right week days is right Sundays, — Thomas Hardy

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows. — Rick Yancey

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. — Dante Alighieri