Shelkoviy Quotes & Sayings

Her cheeks were bright with a soft vermilion of the pomegranate mingling with the whiteness of the lily. — Aleister Crowley

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started. — Zora Neale Hurston

To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through its ventilators. It talked or sometimes yelled through its ventilators, too. In went water and loaves of blackbread and sausage and cheese, and out came shit and piss and language. — Kurt Vonnegut

Nonsense, now and then, is pleasant. — Horace

He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan. — Eliza R. Snow

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't. Quests to faraway places or shopping sprees are no longer necessary. All you have to do is eliminate what you don't need by confronting each of your possessions properly. — Marie Kondo

Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product should touch our senses and evoke emotions. Emotionless art lacks purpose and interest. — Serafima

She reflected on her time in Paris and thought how it seemed as if she'd spent half her life drinking wine in bed and covered with contusions. This, it occurred to her, was how it must feel to be Melanie Griffith. — Chuck Palahniuk

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
victimless collecting, as it were ... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments. — Susan Sontag

Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend. — Margaret Atwood

If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels. Strike — Robert Galbraith

literature and opera are full of
characters who die for love:
i stay alive for her.
- Excerpt from "No Longer A Teenager — Gerald Locklin

A great horse is the product of great management." — Cindy McDonald

It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills. — Yaya Han

If you wanna get to heaven, get out of this world. — Jenny Lewis