Pamatu Bloki Quotes & Sayings

I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will! — Rufus Wainwright

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable — George Eliot

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. — Umberto Eco

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy

Under Janet, Gibbie was saved the thousand agonies that befall the conscientious disciple, from the forcing upon him, as the thoughts and will of the eternal Father of our spirits, of the ill expressed and worse understood experiences, the crude conjectures, the vulgar imaginations of would-be teachers of the multitude. Containing truth enough to save those of sufficiently low development to receive such teaching without disgust, it contains falsehood enough, but for the Spirit of God, to ruin all nobler - I mean all childlike natures, utterly; and many such it has gone far to ruin, driving them even to a madness in which they have died. Jesus alone knows the Father, and can reveal him. Janet studied only Jesus, and as a man knows his friend, so she, only infinitely better, knew her more than friend - her Lord and her God. Do — George MacDonald

Last night when you called I told you
I was happy, which was true, but thinking ahead

I could be unhappy, too, if that's what you
wanted. I could be any of a lot of things:
a wrist, a ghost, a harbor, a rope. I could

be the one who doesn't know the language.
I could be the reason they take you first.
I could be the last person to see you alive. — Leigh Stein

Take pleasure only when it is. — Agnel Vishal

Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing. — Anthony Trollope