Passerine Songbird Quotes & Sayings

Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see a single white lotus blossom. Their love was a dreamlike flower that not even Keiko could stain. — Yasunari Kawabata

The French inventor told the acting troupe about Lord Maccon's death. — Gail Carriger

If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not? — Rosamund Hodge

I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys. — Cassandra Clare

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick. — Carroll Bryant

I'm an avid biography reader. — Brent Spiner

Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle. — Margaret Kennedy

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all. — Marianne Williamson

He was always a little boy, and I am upset that I didn't look after him, upset that there are so many kids who never get looked after, and so they can't grow up. They can get older, but they can't grow up. That takes love. If you are lucky the love will come later. If you are lucky you won't hit love in the face. — Jeanette Winterson

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. — A.E. Housman