Saiki K Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rats had featured largely in the history of Ankh-Morpork. Shortly before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats - and then people were suddenly queing up with tails, the city treasury was being drained, and no one seemed to be doing much work. And there still seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: Tax the rat farms. — Terry Pratchett

Life, like the trance we call Love, might begin with a look, a glance, an exchange between eyes — Peggy Phelan

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on. — Candace Bushnell

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories — Sol Stein

This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate. — Wayne Dyer

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else. — Monica Furlong

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. — E.W. Howe

I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well. — Brenda Hillman

Love is the castle, doubt is the moat, desire is the paddle and hope is the boat. — Kellie Elmore

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin. — Billy Graham

Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation. — Victor Ponta

A movie set, Julia, is a tiny, intimate world, divorced from reality. No, immune to it." She smiled to herself. "Fantasy, however difficult the work, is its own addiction. Which is why so many of us delude ourselves into believing we've fallen desperately in love with another character in that shiny bubble - for the length of time it takes to create a film. — Nora Roberts

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. 1SA2:07 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 1SA2:08 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them. — Anonymous