Salvesen Quotes & Sayings

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [ ... ] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. — Anne Lamott

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion. — Alan Moore

We were ghosts. Ghosts didn't exist in real life. You couldn't touch a ghost. — Jessica Love

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures. — Erica Goros

I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down. — Christy Romano

Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles, life. - Young. The smallest hair throws its shadow. - Goethe. He that despiseth small things shall fall little by little. - Ecclesiastes. It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. - Tennyson. "A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river: A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever. — Orison Swett Marden

If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. — Joe Hill

Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!"
"No, he won fairly enough!" — Michelle Paver

She will be your death. She will be everyone's death." "She has failed most miserably at being 'everyone's death.' She's effectively harmless, Membricus." "No woman is ever harmless! — Sara Douglass

There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusing you, that is not what I am trying to do at all. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say. — Ned Vizzini