Redcrow Quotes & Sayings

Politics. From the Latin poly, meaning many, and tics, meaning blood-sucking parasites. That may be incorrect, but it's not wrong. — Garon Whited

You can never tell about those Yankees! — L.M. Montgomery

What if I start training my consciousness to know that it is a time and space traveller of unlimited proportions? — Ricci-Jane Adams

She'd known for years that good things didn't last, that loved ones went away and dreams were as easy to reach as the stars in the sky. — Eliza Lloyd

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not. — Frank O'Hara

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance. — John Donne

A few old shits and some fucking woman," he snarled. "We're backing down to the likes o' these without a fight?" "No, no." Hardbread slung his own scarred shield onto his back. "I'm backing down, and these fellows here. You're going to stay, and fight Whirrun of Bligh on your own." "I'm what?" Redcrow frowned at Whirrun, twitchy, and Whirrun looked back, what showed of his face still stony as the Heroes themselves. "That's right," said Hardbread, "since you're itching for a brawl. Then I'm going to cart your hacked-up corpse back to your mummy and tell her not to worry 'cause this is the way you wanted it. You loved this fucking hill so much you just had to die here. — Joe Abercrombie

If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right. — Francesco Guicciardini

My strengths are not your strengths. — Mary E. Pearson

Beauty is a willing loss of mental control, surrendered to organic process that is momentarily under the direction of an exterior object. The object is not thought and felt about, exactly. It seems to use my capacities to think and feel itself. — Peter Schjeldahl

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music. — Josh Homme

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world. — Gustav Mahler