Rudyards Quotes & Sayings

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate ... — Suzanne Collins

When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there. — Jean Plaidy

'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting. — Victor LaValle

Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more. — James Kenneth Stephen

As darkness descended, fear continued hammering on the cracks of her rational mind. Even the critters had decided to ratchet up the volume. Great. A creepy nature soundtrack for my own personal nightmare. How about some Tomb Raider music, people! — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself. — Annette Vaillancourt

You a slave to a page in my rhyme book. — Nas

I ask mostly to see if I can get her to blush ten shades deeper, see if the color would bleed down her neck and light up her boobs like a pair of Christmas ornaments. — Addison Moore

The soul is awakened through service. — Erica Jong

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. — Elizabeth Taylor

Research can trap you into the past. — William Bernbach

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another — P.D. Ouspensky