Rolande Curtis Quotes & Sayings

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you. — Fredrik Backman

Holy Bible is Holy Bible. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Awake and asleep the novel is with you, dogging your footsteps. Strange formless bits of material float out from the ether about you and attach themselves to the main body of the story as though they had hung suspended in air for years, waiting. — Edna Ferber

Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks. — Alex Pacheco

When Adam found his rib was gone
He cursed and sighed and cried and swore
And looked with cold resentment on
The creature God has used it for. — John Hollander

Here, just like in my own world, popularity was power; survival required the occasional sacrifice of a damaged limb - or a damaged cousin - and alliances were crucial. — Rachel Vincent

Have you noticed how few men in the peerage are young and nice-looking?" Lillian asked wryly. "Most of them are dull-witted, ancient, or possess the kind of face that should have a hook in its mouth. — Lisa Kleypas

Back to Germany," one of the cops said, surveying him. "I'm an American," Frank Frink said. "You're a Jew," the cop said. — Philip K. Dick

Humankind, with its long history, is by now a corpse bound to a tree with the ropes of convention. If the ropes were cut, the corpse would simply fall to the ground. Prayer in one's mother tongue is a manifestation of that pathetic state."
-from "A Prayer in the Mother Tongue — Yasunari Kawabata

If our minds are those of hunter-gatherers, our cuisine is that of ancient farmers. — Yuval Noah Harari

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?' — Mark Cuban

Who has ever heard of a maid and a concierge making use of their afternoon break to ponder the cultural significance of interior decoration? You would be surprised by what ordinary little people come out with. — Muriel Barbery

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music. — Beck