Samothrace Sculpture Quotes & Sayings

It is not immodest, father. It's the fashion to wear bustles. HOBSON. Then to hell with the fashion. — Harold Brighouse

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. — Zora Neale Hurston

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre. — Ruskin Bond

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war. — U Thant

For the most part people do not like to learn. They like to know adn they like to tell others what they know, but they do not like the process of learning ... — Jude Deveraux

The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling. — Norman Lock

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on. — Maurice Blanchot

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst. — Barbara Brown Taylor

I don't want to hurt or injure anyone. I just want to win. I have to win, so I do what I have to do. — Nemanja Vidic

I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid. — Michael Rapaport

Then I knelt heedfully upright and mentally prayed as we'd been instructed to do, some scared and scientific part of me assaying myself for chemical reactions or a sudden infusion of wisdom while fancying Christ now sitting dismally in my scoundrel soul, my oh so many sins pooling like sewer water at his sandaled feet. But soon I saw that I was still me; there would be no howls of objection, no immediate correction or condemnation, no hint that I was under new management, just the calming sense that whoever I was was fine with Jesus.

It was a grace I hadn't imagined. — Ron Hansen