Peculiarity Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself. — James Robertson

I am in the mood to dissolve into the sky — Virginia Woolf

The human mind is a product of the Pleistocene age, shaped by wildness that has all but disappeared. If we complete the destruction of nature, we will have succeeded in cutting ourselves off from the source of sanity itself. Hermetically sealed amidst our creations and bereft of those of the
Creation, the world then will reflect only the demented image of the mind imprisoned within itself. Can the mind doting on itself and its creations be sane? — Edward O. Wilson

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels. — Nell Freudenberger

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. — Savielly Tartakower

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. — Thomas Carlyle

Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits.
-David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme- — Lora Leigh

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer. — Irwin Shaw

You have the here and now. You have a future. Deal with the past so you can stop looking back. It's just the pain. — Jessica Park

The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life. — Ravi Zacharias

The world needs the sense that we are all in it TOGETHER! — Jean Houston

Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once. — Spencer W. Kimball

Respect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ? — Robert E.Lee

Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the language that he uses? Are not our attitudes toward people and events in great part shaped by the very language in which we describe them? When we try to describe one person to another or to a group, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job
no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being. — Cleanth Brooks