Phi Mu Lion Quotes & Sayings

Life is messy, violent, confusing, and hopeful. — Wally Lamb

The 70's was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future. — Michael Hyatt

As the High Priestess looked down upon the child, she was struck by her holy perfection. She was a tiny person in miniature, and her beautiful eyes, little hands, and long eyelashes were sublime. — Alan Kinross

I love a mysterious underground and have exploited this in many of my books: the ice tunnels of Greenland, the volcanic tubes of Iceland, the mysterious passageways beneath an ancient African hillside or a Buddhist monastery in central China. And of course, London's famous tube system, setting for my book LONDON UNDERGROUND. It's a funny sort of fixation, especially given my mother's claustrophobia, which I saw her deal with on many occasions. We once lined up to take a tour into the Lascaux Caverns in France to see the ancient cave paintings. My mother didn't make it past the first quirky turn into the depths, and she sent me on by myself. Given her interest in history and archaeology, which she used as the basis for a series of mysteries she published and which inspired my own writing, it always surprised me she still loved to write about places she could never visit. — Chris Angus

This object that we hold in our hands, a book ... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away. — Maggie Stiefvater

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. — John Robert Seeley

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself. — Jodi Picoult

And as it went on I set it against the background of that other talk, and as I matched the two together I had no doubt that one was the descendant, the legitimate heir of the other. — Virginia Woolf

It's mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about. — Janeane Garofalo

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has. — Joseph Wood Krutch

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. — Virginia Woolf

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems. — Gene Tierney

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God? — Jeff Henderson

Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license. — Aleister Crowley

Why does naming a thing give it so much power? — Ellen Sussman