Palladian Shelf Quotes & Sayings

Staring down hard truth takes guts. — Joan Bauer

Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place. — Jeff Cooper

When the smoke cleared, we saw the chickens still coming toward us, unhurt and seemingly unsurprised by the blast, a little cloud of feathers wafting around them like fat snowflakes. Enoch's jaw fell open. "Are you telling me these chickens lay exploding eggs?!" he said. "Only when they get excited," said — Ransom Riggs

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen. — Quentin Crisp

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. — Alice Walker

Never halt on a shifting slope. Even if you think you have a firm foothold ... — Rene Daumal