Outweighed Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

There are two kinds of blood, the blood that flows in the veins and the blood that flows out of them.
— Julian Tuwim

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire. — Adrienne Rich

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are ... exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm. — John Newton

Punk can be a mental ghetto. People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians and have stupid three hour conversation about things like, which band is a sellout and is straight edge cool or un-cool and it's just completely idiotic. So punk has taught me the aesthetic of the outsider, which is great, but it's also taught me not to get involved in petty little cults. — Jesse Michaels

And so he came at last to the high seat of Guslav the fifth, High King of the Union. His head was slumped sideways, squashed down under the sparkling crown. His pasty pale fingers twitched on his crimson silk mantle like white slugs. His eyes were closed, chest rising and falling gently, accompanied by gentle splutterings as spittle issued from his slack lips and ran down his chin, joining the sweat on his bulging jowls and helping it to turn his high collar dark with wet. Truly, Jezal was in the presence of greatness. "Your — Joe Abercrombie

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing. — Gautama Buddha

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices. — Amy Dickinson

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. — Jasper Fforde

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. — Johnny Carson

My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do. — Ed Sheeran

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote:
I give you the world.
Have fun blowing it up. — Craig Ferguson