Rurikoji Quotes & Sayings

George could only stare at the young lady's kindling face, which lighted up all in a moment, and was suddenly beautiful, like some transparency which seems a dingy picture till you put a lamp behind it. The young surgeon could only stare wonderingly at Mr. Sleaford's daughter, for he hadn't the faintest idea what she and his friend were talking about. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Though poets might prefer a more evocative comparison, astrophysicists liken the sun to a nuclear fusion reactor. — Eric W. Sanderson

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan. — Coolio

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income ... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. — Ann Romney

I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky. — George Gordon Byron

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything! — Tanith Lee

shatter the foundation — Veronica Roth

Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words ... leave people tone deaf. — Sanjo Jendayi

Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child. — Khaled Hosseini