Severus Hotel Quotes & Sayings

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary. — Sarah Hall

I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I play a song and it's refreshing. It's almost like initializing yourself. Recently I was in South Africa doing a press day for my tour. I listened to this band called "Freshly Ground." They were doing a live gig there so that's the last thing I've heard. — A.R. Rahman

I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical talent we do here in the states. Here people have been trained much more specifically - they know exactly what they're doing. The Europeans are perhaps slower, but in the end damn near as good. — Lee Van Cleef

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love. — Ovid

I love you," I said. "What we have, you and me, it's what I thought love should be, but I'd stopped believing it existed. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined. — Robert Haugen

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder. — Victor Hugo

Out of a grave I come to tell you this, -
Out of grave I come to quench the kiss
That flames upon your forehead with a glow
That blinds you to the way that you must go.
Yes, there is yet one way to where she is, -
Bitter, but one that faith can never miss.
Out of a grave I come to tell you this -
To tell you this. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us - to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is. — Andrew Kaufman

"The root of joy is gratefulness." — David Steindl-Rast

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. — Charles Spurgeon

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. — Dick Gregory

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad. — Gareth Gates

There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so. — Mary Daly