Remnants From The Ashes Quotes & Sayings

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser. — Chang-rae Lee

Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine. — Anacreon

Inside your head you hear
a phone ringing, and when you open your eyes you're washing up
in a stranger's bathroom,
standing by the window in a yellow towel, only twenty minutes away
from the dirtiest thing you know.
All the rooms of the castle except this one, says someone, and suddenly
darkness,
suddenly only darkness.
In the living room, in the broken yard,
in the back of the car as the lights go by. In the airport
bathroom's gurgle and flush, bathed in a pharmacy of
unnatural light,
my hands looking weird, my face weird, my feet too far away. — Richard Siken

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate. — Neill Blomkamp

I spent my whole life wantin' to take care of children. You a blessing, not a burden." She looked at me hard. "Don't you go forgettin' that." She patted my shoulder and left me alone. As I fell asleep, it come to me that that was the first time anybody had ever told me I was a blessing. — Susan Crandall

If he didn't have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We'd never see out Zooey again. — J.D. Salinger

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party. — Patti LaBelle

He, the man of violent energy and passionate ambition, the man of achievement, lighted by the flame of his success and flung into the midst of those pretentious ashes who called themselves an intellectual elite, the burned-out remnants of undigested culture, feeding on the afterglow of the minds of others, offering their denial of the mind as their only claim to distinction, and a craving to control the world as their only lust ... — Ayn Rand

Here we are sitting at the Waldorf in a conference room... and in comes someone with long hair and wearing an outfit dripping leather. I remember whispering to Dave Connell, "How do we know that man back there isn't going to throw a bomb up here or toss a hand grenade?"
Connell, always one to keep a cool head, assessed the situation with care. He discreetly turned his head toward the back and realized he recognized the tall, angular man carrying a small purse under his arm. A slight smile curled as he assured Cooney the hippie back there posed no threat.
"Not likely, that's Jim Henson," he said. — Michael Davis

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing. The woods always look different at night. — Suzanne Collins

My car contained guns, bundles of cash I'd found hidden about the house, and boxes of vintage pornography. If I got pulled over and searched, I'd probably go to jail. If I had a wreck, money and porn would litter the interstate, mixed with my funeral suit, my grandfather's rifle, a shotgun, three hundred rounds of ammunition, the remnants of my father's ashes, and whatever was left of me. — Chris Offutt

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day. — Tammara Webber

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. — Seneca The Younger