Paraska Construction Quotes & Sayings

She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in. — Lorna Landvik

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?
— William H Gass

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully. — Charlie Kaufman

maybe people are no longer
beautiful to us because
we construct them with our
thoughts,
walking around the earth
building humans
like we are gods. — Christopher Poindexter

Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr ... that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely inside their own social moment, and thus tend to see all existence past age thirty or so as somehow postcoital. It's then that they'll relax, settle back, sad animals, to watch- and learn, as Ambrose himself said he learned from hard artistic and academic experience- that life instead of being rated a hard R, or even a soft R, actually rarely even makes it into distribution. Tends to be too slow. — David Foster Wallace

The kowtow was symbolically voluntary: it was the representative deference of a people that had been not so much conquered as awed. The tribute presented to China on such occasions was often exceeded in value by the Emperor's return gifts. — Henry Kissinger

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. — Ryan Tedder

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time. — Jenny Mollen

When death is the ultimate destination for all of us, why are we not enjoying our lives? — Debasish Mridha

Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents. — Glen Duncan

The full Moon's light poured into the room like a stroke from a wide paintbrush... — Peter Hammarberg

Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?" ...
"No."
"Well, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence? — Heather Brewer