Poignard De Combat Quotes & Sayings

To shut your eyes is to travel. — Emily Dickinson

The nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself; — Peter Kreeft

But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write. — Frank Herbert

So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war's true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war - which was being remembered even as it was fought, whose fallen were being remembered before they fell - seems not so much to be tinted by retrospect as to have been fought retrospectively. — Geoff Dyer

Where you girls from? Don't answer if you don't feel like it. I don't want you to strain yourself. — J.D. Salinger

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters? — Meg Whitman

Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground. — Tomas Kalnoky

They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink in all the sleep in the world during these last hours. — Hermann Hesse

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger. — Helen Mirren

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. — Sonia Sanchez

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy. — Charles Stross

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. — Arnold Bennett

Live in the moment ... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it. — J. Aleksandr Wootton