Serbian Proverb Quotes & Sayings

The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced knee-deep through the clefts and crevices, twisted and tortured in a thousand ways, till it swept nuzzling and sucking into the holes at the base of the cliff. The whole reef was a shambles of foam, but it was bright in the sun, bright as a shattered mirror, exuberant and leaping with light. — Colin Thiele

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head. — Brian Eno

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love? — Carson McCullers

The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode. — David Cameron

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening. — Eric Clapton

Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone. — Edgar Allan Poe

Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them. — Elliott Abrams

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go. — Morris West

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream. — Winona Ryder

Inspiration was a temperamental guest. It dropped in unannounced, then left without so much as a goodbye, slipping out a window in the dead of night or sauntering out the front door, leaving the house empty, drafty, and cold. — Eric Wilson

Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fas as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them that they have been training. The one that lives every second at a time. That sits down and sees their life again and goes over it. Looks at the texture and details. — Natalie Goldberg

Two tiny corpses, one male and the other female, rattle around that enormous closet in my bedroom. Though deceased, still they are quick enough to hide themselves whenever I need to enter the closet to retrieve something. — Thomas Ligotti

Forget about lien about you behind your back and talking nonsense, some people can lie to you looking in your eyes ... — Honeya

If you walk around proudly when someone greets you with respect or says, 'welcome, welcome', you will suffer a loss, right? Here, it was the other person's duty [social obligation] to welcome you, but you shouldn't fall short. So you should immediately check your balance-sheet (of karma) to find out where you sustained a loss! — Dada Bhagwan