Qianse5 Quotes & Sayings

God, but the coast here was painfully beautiful, the dark lush greens of the fir trees piercing his brain, the half-raging sky and sea, the surge of salt water against the rocks twinned to the urgent wash of blood through his arteries as he waited for her to kill him or hear him out. Seditious thoughts: there would be nothing too terrible about dying out here, about becoming part of all of this. — Jeff VanderMeer

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff. — Stevie Smith

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy. — Susan Sontag

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before. — Nancy Roman

The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me — Thom Yorke

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up. — Orlando Bloom

I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick ... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of art ... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza. — James Joyce

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me ... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart — Tennessee Williams

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos. — Diana Gabaldon

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. — Hunter S. Thompson