Pythia Quotes & Sayings

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter. — Joanna Scott

Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available. — Marc Ostrofsky

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind. — John Tillotson

Mr. Baggins was still officially their expert burglar and investigator. If he liked to risk a light, that was his affair. They would wait in the tunnel for his report. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Playing in (the Neurotic Outsiders) with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many chicks. It was, like, 'Wow, John, really? So this is what it was like, huh?' And there would be like a couple guys with mohawks and a guy with, like, a jean jacket coming in to see me and Jonesy! — Duff McKagan

I'd been declared - over my loud and sustained protests - Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world. — Karen Chance

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments. — Emile M. Cioran

Why is your hair green?"
"It's a fashion statement."
"It's hideous. And even if it weren't ... tinted ... or whatever you did to it, it still wouldn't do. We haven't had a blond Pythia before; it's simply not what people expect to see. And, frankly, it doesn't suit you."
"It's my natural color!"
"Then it's naturally hideous. And this" - he tugged at my curls - "will have to go."
"If you touch me one more time - " I said softly.
"I'll make you an appointment with a hairdresser who understands that we need suave. We need sophisticated. We need - well, someone else, obviously, but - — Karen Chance

These two Joes - the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer - were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day. — Pythia Peay

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason. — Epes Sargent

The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more. — M. Night Shyamalan

He had the look of an atheist who'd just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill. — Karen Chance

Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage. — Tariq Ramadan

Long slow distance makes long slow runners. — Jim Bush