Queenstown New Zealand Quotes & Sayings

Of course, the Grimnoir thought they were the good guys. Everybody thought they were in the right. The evilest bastards he had ever met had still thought of themselves as the good guys. It was just his dumb luck to blunder into a bunch of true believers. Sullivan closed his eyes and went back to sleep. — Anonymous

He turns not back who is bound to a star. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed. — Ben Elliot

I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it. — Sam Claflin

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter. — Jayne Anne Phillips

After all, you're his number one fan. — Stephen King

We can only feel happy and fulfilled if we're engaged in our (soul's) purpose. — Doreen Virtue

Listen, I traipse no I run no I sprint--a fat, impotent ghoul sprung straight from the cellar of my childhood home--past the pregnant girl with five skeletal children and the nun and the synagogue with its windows stoned through and I'm headed directly for my daughter, Sylvia, at her school where she's stationed with classmates of wannabe punks and black boys with their heads shaved and every one of them, apes, gushing out their hormones as I sprint to the edge of the Earth where Sylvia studies the canon of our national literature that I'm desperately trying to forget. — Leland Pitts-Gonzalez

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. — Antisthenes

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. — Dolly Parton

In an era of weaponized sensitivity, participation in public discourse is growing so perilous, so fraught with the danger of being caught out for using the wrong word or failing to uphold the latest orthodoxy in relation to disability, sexual orientation, economic class, race or ethnicity, that many are apt to bow out. Perhaps intimidating their elders into silence is the intention of the identity-politics cabal - and maybe my generation should retreat to our living rooms and let the young people tear one another apart over who seemed to imply that Asians are good at math. — Lionel Shriver

My body - I do not fall to pieces and be reduced to a big pile of lovable mush over a woman, never! — A.R. Von

Right now all he wanted was to get out of this awful place where reality had worn so thin. — Stephen King

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction. — Colum McCann