Rahonavis Quotes & Sayings

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be ... — Hermann Broch

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.'
-Mat — Robert Jordan

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing. — Bruce Lee

Sometimes you are stuck being the person you are and not the person you were. Or could be. — Karina Halle

Along the Oregon coast an arm of the Pacific shushes softly against rocky shores. Above the waves, dripping silver in the moonlight, old trees, giant trees, few now, thrust their heads among low clouds, the moss thick upon their boles and shadow deep around their roots. In these woods nights are quiet, save for the questing hoot of an owl, the satin stroke of fur against a twig, the tick and rasp of small claws climbing up, clambering down. In these woods, bear is the big boy, the top of the chain, but even he goes quietly and mostly by day. It is a place of mosses and liverworts and ferns, of filmy green that curtains the branches and cushions the soil, a wet place, a still place. — Sheri S. Tepper

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far. — Ellen Burstyn

I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year. — Frank Deford

It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something, a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn, and that's why they're here ... — Danielle Steel

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject. — William Zinsser

[ ... ] to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation. — Milan Kundera

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. — William Hazlitt

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. — Oliver North

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that. — Tea Leoni

There's nothing left of me.
I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight. — Rumi

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita