Plantings And Pairings Quotes & Sayings

G. K. Chesterton compared fantastic fiction to going on holiday - that the importance of your holiday is the moment you return, and you see the place you live through fresh eyes. — Neil Gaiman

Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us. — Judy Grahn

But the rain gods went away. They ain't coming back, either." "How do you know that?" "They got no reason to. We don't believe in them no more. — James Lee Burke

The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music. — Steve Winwood

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. — Marco Tempest

Knowledge tossed away," she said, shivering a little in the desert chill. "Willful ignorance in the face of something we might have to work to understand." At — Richard K. Morgan

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music. — Mika.

The bar looked like a place where meth-addicted rats went to die. — J.L. Bryan

Magic and its remedies deal with borders, markers, distinctions, insides and outsides, the limits of bodies, and also that which breaches these boundaries; bodily fluids, exchanges of objects through bodies and across thresholds, words that pass through the guard of the ear and enter the mind of the hearer. Women's bodies by virtue of their reproductive capacities, are seen as more open, more grotesque, less autonomous — Diane Purkiss

She was shocked when she followed her aunt and cousin down into the city proper. The streets were crawling with people, all hurrying to and fro, mindless of one another. They brushed by with barely even a glance, stepping down into the busy roads between horse drawn buses and draymen's carts with such confidence, seemingly oblivious that they could be run down at any moment. Children dodged in and out amongst them, ragamuffins all, some barefoot. — Lillian White

The truth is that the Man who walked among us was a demonstration, not of unveiled deity, but of perfect humanity. — A.W. Tozer

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window. — Evan Esar

As for dreams, they are powered by urgent desire, even if that desire is only to escape the quotidian. — Gregory Maguire

Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city. — Woody Allen

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. — Karl Kraus