Quickening Blade Quotes & Sayings

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?" ... I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father. — Abraham Verghese

There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle. — Rachel Kushner

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right. — Bobby Knight

In France they don't think I'm difficult. — David Bailey

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third. — Vladimir Putin

What the fuck is "purple rain"? It's doggerel, that's what; nobody has the foggiest idea what purple rain is. — Anonymous

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. — Walt Disney

The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster. — Charles Evans Hughes

Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it's because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal. — James Morcan

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

He tastes like my deepest craving fulfilled. — Stephanie Perkins

Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing. — Madi Diaz

Faith is not a generalized abstraction but a way of life that is expressed in persistent prayer. — Eugene H. Peterson

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor. — Carl Sagan