Saxon Stories Quotes & Sayings

One of things we say on 'Arrow' is, 'The only constant is evolution.' — Marc Guggenheim

I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people. — Matthew De Abaitua

I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway. — Mike Birbiglia

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities. — Shunryu Suzuki

First, it took both of us to kill that thing, and if it reinvents itself again, it will take both of us again. I'm not leaving you alone with it. Second, if you try to physically carry me to the car, I will resist and bleed more. Third, you can possibly stuff me in the car against my will, but you can't make me drive." He snarled. "Argh! Why don't you ever do anything I ask you to?" "Because you don't ask. You tell me." We glared at each other. — Ilona Andrews

Her conversation was like a Russian newspaper, remarkable for what is left unsaid. — Guy Thorne

You bastard!' he shouted. He was quick. No warrior stays alive by being slow. — Bernard Cornwell

i'm
as thin
as your
eyelashes — Valzhyna Mort

Earsling,' a harsh voice challenged me from beside the Wheatsheaf's heart. 'What rancid demon brought you here to spoil my day?' I stared. And stared. Because the last person I had ever expected to see in AEthelred's stronghold of Gleawecestre was staring at me. 'Well, earsling?' he demanded, 'what are you doing here?'
It was my father. — Bernard Cornwell

The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art. — Joshua Reynolds

Choose your battles,' I snarled at Aethelstan. 'That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.' Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg — Bernard Cornwell

Cnut Longsword had near killed me with his blade Ice-Spite and it was small consolation that Serpent-Breath had sliced his throat in the same heartbeat that his sword had broken a rib and pierced my lung. — Bernard Cornwell

I think, in a lot of places, the solar panels are a badge of honor; they're trendy. If you go to Hawaii or Japan, people even install fake solar panels because it's cool and it's popular. And so I think solar panels have gotten a lot more attractive. They're sleek, black, they look good on a roof. — Lynn Jurich

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles. — Thighpaulsandra

Thou Wonder, and thou Beauty, and thou Terror! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

He was a hard man, but what else would he be? He had stood in the shield wall, he had watched the Danes come to the attack, and he had lived. He was no youngster. — Bernard Cornwell

Inhabiting a place that could not be home, they were like actors compelled to play themselves. — John Banville

I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth. — Bernard Cornwell