Orianna Quotes & Sayings

Father Adam!"
But the little man said nothing, did nothing. He stood still holding the letter, and there was not even a change of expression in his face; and this might be, thought Jocelin, because he has no face at all. He is the same all round like the top of a clothespeg. He spoke, laughing down at the baldness with its fringe of nondescript hair.
"I ask your pardon, Father Adam. One forgets you are there so easily!" And then, laughing aloud in joy and love - "I shall call you Father Anonymous! — William Golding

No ID, no person — Mikhail Bulgakov

Not everyone strives to be fashionable. I don't, and I believe I succeed. — Joseph Epstein

Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again — Saddam Hussein

But no one fought for Orianna Catherine Speerling. — Nova Ren Suma

When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea. — Matthew Specktor

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well. — Aeschylus

On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach five miles to the north-west of the city. — J.G. Ballard

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. — Greta Garbo

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. — Emile M. Cioran

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen ... my mother and three or four of her friends ... told stories ... with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition. — Paule Marshall

I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they will stay where they are, never moving, until the last breath is out of their bodies and indeed they will remain in the place where they came to grief even after death, held fast by the tiny claws that stiffened in their last agony, until a draft of air detaches them and blows them into a dusty corner. — W.G. Sebald

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing. — Elizabeth Hardwick

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. — Thom Gunn

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it. — Wendy Kaminer