Pritaneo Quotes & Sayings

Always scorn appearances and you always may. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was one of the peculiar malfunctions of technology that shore batteries on the islands were generally of inadequate caliber and range to knock out a ship approaching with hostile intent. One is moved to wonder why, if a 10-pounder gun could be mounted on the rolling deck of a sailing vessel, the same or larger could not be mounted on land? — Barbara W. Tuchman

She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up. — Helen Hodgman

And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw. — Mercedes Lackey

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile. — Tim Pratt

I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal. — Augusten Burroughs

All the world's a circus. Sometimes you choose your act and sometimes it's assigned to you. — Mia Sheridan

Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky. — Charlemagne

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore I'm always pleasantly surprised. — Lianne La Havas

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do. — Trick Daddy