Recomposed Def Quotes & Sayings

What is it like to wear another person's skin?"
"I don't have a good answer for that," I said. "It hurts."
"Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt? — Andrew Davidson

To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. — Susan Sontag

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships. — Michelle Bachelet

It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it. — Bill Vaughan

the tragedy is that the world never does end, ever. That it goes on & on, forcing us to go along as well, until at last there is nothing else, nothing more. Until there is only what was, same as what is and what will be--Only the truth, which never changes. Truth not made flesh but image, for anyone to see. — Gemma Files

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place. — Paolo Sorrentino

Beasts of England had been abolished. From now onwards it was forbidden to sing it. — George Orwell

Negative words other than not are usually strong: — William Strunk Jr.

As the era of care-less food comes to a reckoning, we're relearning the astonishingly elemental delight in growing what we eat and preparing it as though it matters. It's — Krista Tippett

I swear I have never told a player to attack another player. In fact, I have told my players if they ever hear me saying something like this, they can break a stick over my skull. I ask only that they play aggressively. — Fred Shero

It is a fundamental axiom of married life that you must lie to a woman. She likes it! — Agatha Christie

We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Aidan was fascinated by Mr. Stock's hat. Perhaps it had once been a trilby sort of thing. It may once hace even been a definite color. Now it was more like something that had grown - like a fungus - on Mr. Stock's head, so mashed and used and rammed down by earthy hands that you could have thought it was a mushroom that had accidentally grown into a sort of gnome-hat. It had a slightly domed top and a floppy edge. And a definite smell — Diana Wynne Jones