Quodammodo Quotes & Sayings

The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up the will to live. — Timothy Zahn

For man seeks not so much God as the miraculous — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted
and misquoted
by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile. — T.S. Mathews

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present. — Nicholas Hoult

In the purest sensual and intimate act of lovemaking, there is a give and take, and both partners actively choose among and agree to the expressions. In reciprocal lovemaking, a woman is equally satisfied and drives the experience just as much as her man. — J.F. Kelly

Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams. — Tim McGraw

Today we confront the future with optimism from a founded hope for the Iraqi people - in freedom — Jose Maria Aznar

Every day I saw others like me in this city - enough of us to populate our own town. But we only acknowledged each other with a furtive glance, fearful of calling attention to ourselves. Being alone in public was painful enough; two could find themselves smack in the center of an unbearable sideshow. We didn't seem to have any of our own places to gather in community, to immerse ourselves in our own ways and our own languages. — Leslie Feinberg

Ari!" Jeb had finally seen his son. He rushed to Ari's side and knelt next to him. Looking stunned, he gathered Ari's hulking form and held him to his chest. "I'm so sorry." I saw his mouth shape the words, though I couldn't hear them. "I'm so sorry." He bent over Ari's form, mindless of his vulnerable position. — James Patterson

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute. — Jennifer V Clancy

Teach rightly.
Teach respectfully.
Teach responsibly.
Teach reliably. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Lily studied the rock garden. On a long, low hill that sloped to the stream, someone had set stones into the side and planted wildflowers in the pockets of dirt above them. They made her think of opera boxes filled with ladies in colorful gowns. Tyler's mother must have loved cool tones. Lily admired the blues, purples and pinks of the different flowers... — Debra Holland

I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time. — Henry Rollins

For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here. — Lennart Nilsson

Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ?
Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo. — Toba Beta