Quilled Earrings Quotes & Sayings

[Dream] I do not want a grape.
[Desire] I could make you want one. — Neil Gaiman

The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably conclude that, if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction. — Edward Gibbon

You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need. — Shannon L. Alder

Customs, morals--is there a difference? — Robert A. Heinlein

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was ... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it. — Donald Hall

I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. — Joan Rivers

He pivoted, gaze following me as I crossed to the shower and turned on the cold water, so it would drown out our conversation without steaming up the room.
Great," he muttered."Now they're going to think we're showering together. Maybe we can just tell them we were washing off the crawl space dirt and trying to conserve water. — Kelley Armstrong

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading. — Terry Pratchett

Professional is an apt definition for me, professional slouch, that is. I can be very professional at seeming to do work, but the real work is trying to do as little as possible, without getting caught by Trip or any nosey busybodies. — J.C. Patrick

Oh my God, that would be just like An Officer and a Gentleman," Kat cried. "Pick her up, Grace! Do it! — Tiffanie DeBartolo

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then. — Steve Irwin

I feel that all the experiences I've gone through in my life, the joyful ones and the painful ones, they add to the picture and completeness of who I am. — Jai Uttal

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor. — David Gemmell

It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive. — Gregory David Roberts