Pailler Des Quotes & Sayings

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? — Wilfred Owen

If I want something I get it," she said as she took a grape from her salad and plopped it into her mouth with her fingers.
"You want me?"
"Didn't say I did. But you seem to think that I've come to get you alone in your house. — Bernadette Marie

Boyfriend #10
Peter Sosa, Age Twenty-Nine
What is it? You're married, aren't you?"
"No, no, nothing like that." He paused, leaving Jane to imagine. "I have a girlfriend. I'm sorry. I'm not cheating, she's right over there, at the table by the window. She made me a bet that I couldn't make the first girl I asked out fall in love with me. Some movie she saw, thought it would be romantic, then it went too far ... "
Jane's language would have made Britney the longshoreman blush down to her boots. — Shannon Hale

A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself. — John Burnside

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down. — Miguel De Unamuno

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. — Bruce Springsteen

I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already. — Ken MacLeod

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. — Edgar Cayce

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about. — Dan Simmons

I'm completely in control of creating my photographs, and I'm not always in complete control of creating a character. It's more of a way to express myself than acting is, by far. — Alexandra Breckenridge