Quilrs Quotes & Sayings

I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Most alcoholics owe money. We do not dodge our creditors. Telling them what we are trying to do, we make no bones about our drinking; they usually know it anyway, whether we think so or not. Nor are we afraid of disclosing our alcoholism on the theory it may cause financial harm. Approached in this way, the most ruthless creditor will sometimes surprise us. Arranging the best deal we can we let these people know we are sorry. Our drinking has made us slow to pay. We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go, for we are liable to drink if we are afraid to face them. — Alcoholics Anonymous

The power of greatness lies within each of us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you're the very luckiest kind of astronaut ever, your big payoff is that you get to visit a barren airless wasteland for five minutes, do some more math, and then go home - ice cream not guaranteed. — Lindy West

I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork. — Billy Cannon

First-century Jews looked forward to a public event ... in and through which their god would reveal to all the world that he was not just a local, tribal deity, but the creator and sovereign of all ... The early Christians ... looked back to an event in and through which, they claimed, Israel's god had done exactly that. — N. T. Wright

Especially when he is plainly unable to move,
and is saying, gently, 'Clark. Please. Just come
over here. Please, — Jojo Moyes

All men will dig their heels in if pushed enough. All men will reach the point that they say "no" for no reason other than opposition, for no reason other than the word fits their mouth, and tastes as good as it sounds. — Mark Lawrence

One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth. — Isaiah Berlin

She trembles when she thinks of everything her quilrs must know about her — Amanda Lee