Salmo Quotes & Sayings

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it. — Mickey Spillane

There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff. — Arnold Gingrich

I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on. — Joshilyn Jackson

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music. — H.L. Mencken

If you want to be great, see greatness in others and appreciate it with your whole heart. — Debasish Mridha

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. — Ian McEwan

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius

Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer. — William Mountford

We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome. — Carl Zimmer