Opposer Quotes & Sayings

In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write. — Robert Silverberg

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him. — Carlos Castaneda

I was in this on my own - it was make it or break it. — Bjorn Shen

Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq. — Chuck Hagel

You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If the tradewinds are blowing, it gets chilly and sometimes you don't catch a wave for an hour. — Rob Machado

It felt beyond strange to be riding topless in broad daylight, but the exhibitionist inside her - inside every submissive - was deeply aroused. — Claire Thompson

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. — Penelope Lively

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity. — Oliver Goldsmith

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. — Carol Vorderman

Veiled melancholy has her sovereign shrine — Stephanie Danler

Only those who have not paid a high price for the gentle joy of living and breathing can allow themselves feelings of melancholy, denial and lofty disdain of life. — Alexander Kushner

This anti-description, for want of a better way of putting it, had made something clear to her by a reverse kind of exposition: while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape itself remained blank. Yet this shape, even while its content remained unknown, gave her for the first time since the incident a sense of who she now was. — Rachel Cusk

It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these films are about us, not them. There's far more meat on the bones of the latter, far more juicy interpretation to get our teeth into. The first zombie is by comparison thin and one dimensional and ironically, it is down to all the exercise. — Simon Pegg

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants — Richard Eberhart

Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently. — Steve Pavlina