Rotula Quotes & Sayings

And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to. — Khadija Rupa

Here again, it occurred to me, was the unique problem that faces my generation, the generation of those who had been, say, seven or eight years old during the mid-1960s, the generation of the grandchildren of those who'd been adults when it all happened; a problem that will face no other generation in history. We are just close enough to those who were there that we feel an obligation to the facts as we know them; but we are also just far enough away, at this point, to worry about our own role in the transmission of those facts, now that the people to whom those facts happened have mostly slipped away. — Daniel Mendelsohn

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other. — Fred Dibnah

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent. — Alfred Brendel

The man was in his late thirties, with coarse black hair and a powerfully angled face. The horse with him made a sudden noise, a high whining sound, and its graceful head tossed, jerked. The man let the reins go, and the horse galloped to the fence where Zeke stood waiting.
Mattie glanced at him. He'd climbed onto the fence and leaned over the top, softly whistling a series of notes. On his face was an expression Mattie had never seen - equal parts joy and sorrow. — Barbara Samuel

You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really don't want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts, I look away and pretend the grass is a jungle, and the ants, little kings of forgotten tribes. — Virginia Petrucci

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. — Denis Diderot

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head. — Robert Smithson

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses. — Chuck Palahniuk

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife. — John Gutfreund

The Sooners are my religion. I've been back to watch the games several times. I'm into all their sports. I'm a tremendous fan. — Joshua Morrow

You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.'
'What tragedy?' asked Mrs. Chatterji.
'Well, when she was four,' said Amit, 'her mother slapped her
it was quite traumatic
and then things went on in that vein. When she was twelve she came in second in an exam ... It hardens you. — Vikram Seth

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story ... to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. — Stephen King

I have no political aspirations. That's it. — Kapil Dev

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend. — Ville Valo