Parchment Like Background Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same. — David Tang

The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals. — James F. Cooper

Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university career, among other sad reasons because he dreamed of being a writer. — Roberto Bolano

I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity. — Marianne Moore

It's dreadful to feel alone and really be alone. But — Eleanor Catton

There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat. — Harsha Bhogle

I wanted to be a novelist for so long. — Alice Sebold

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes? — Richard Pryor

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did. — Nadya Suleman

Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God. — Alice Walker

Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore. — Joe Torre

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It has been utterly exhausting to love you. — Tan Redding