Shadowland Book Quotes & Sayings

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies, but when a melodic line is thwarted. — Slavoj Zizek

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. — Jerry Springer

When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light. — Frederick Lenz

Thy word O Lord is the Truth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature. — Annie Besant

Haters can't see me, but them b-tches still looking for me. — Lil' Wayne

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing. — Joan Didion

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker. — Melissa George

When anybody could tell, nobody was ever going to give fucking peace a chance. — Janet Fitch

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball. — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

I couldn't trust my own mind anymore, which was
the scariest thing I've ever experienced. — Felicia Day

Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill. — Catherynne M Valente

He starts to whisper a prayer. "Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from enmity. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from hurtfulness. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from ill health. Whatever beings there are, may they be able to protect their own happiness. — Karen Connelly