Prelandia Quotes & Sayings

There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card. — Erika Swyler

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time - we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will. — Robert A. Heinlein

night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky. That's how quiet it is. After a while it's almost more than I can stand. I want to scream at the top of my lungs. I want to sing, shout, stamp my feet, clap my hands, anything to declare my presence. My conversation with the soldier had been the first words I'd said aloud in weeks. The Hum died on the tenth day after the Arrival. I was sitting in third period texting Lizbeth the last text I — Rick Yancey

Try not to have a good time ... this is supposed to be educational. — Charles M. Schulz

He was watching Supernatural reruns. "Good choice," I commented. "They're two brothers I'd like to meet in real life. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Give you this give you that blow a kiss take it back if I look inside your brain- One direction I want — One Direction

Now the only thing we have on our hands is too much time, and we're turning on ourselves. — Adam Carolla

The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind. — Catherynne M Valente

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private. — William Holden

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand. — William Shakespeare

You cannot taste a song
but you can feel the tune relishing your heart
where strings of music belong. — Munia Khan

Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it; it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself. — Denham Sutcliffe

Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad.
Thus to make poor females mad. — William Shakespeare

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day. — Beth Comstock

The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God ... has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh ... and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met. — Nikos Kazantzakis