Sheldon Mopes Quotes & Sayings

...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks. — Jim Crumley

It seemed off that anyone could live behind such a high hedge of thorns, and he began to think it would be no great surprize to discover that Mr. Wyvern had been asleep for a hundred years or so. 'Well, I shall not mind that so much,' he thought, 'so long as I am not expected to kiss him. — Susanna Clarke

That's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself. (p. 717) — Wally Lamb

A truculent vet refused the advice and coaxing of doctors, nurses, and physical therapists for weeks; as a result, his back wound broke down, just as we had warned him it would. Called out of the OR, I stitched the dehiscent wound as he yelped in pain, telling myself he'd had it coming.

Nobody has it coming. — Paul Kalanithi

It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude! — Richard Rohr

When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with. — Sara Jeannette Duncan

Not so bad this ending because one is getting used to endings: life like Morse, a series of dots and dashes, never forming a paragraph. — Graham Greene

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. — Craig Brown

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time. — Bud Abbott

In the cellar, the two young women were shrouded in darkness as if they were already in their grave. — Philippa Gregory

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense. — Bear McCreary

I talk specifically to the lifestyle and those who can relate to it. And I feel like, where the creativity comes in, is where you draw the parallels that everybody can relate to. That's where it's creative for me. I feel like it works best that way. — Pusha T