Sheorcust Quotes & Sayings

People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened. — Maureen Johnson

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. — Edward M. Lerner

What would Jesus, or any human being who isn't an asshole, do? — Jon Stewart

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ... — Octavian Paler

It seems to be a requirement of great and powerful magicians that they live on public assistance. — Francis King

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I asked him once what he believed to be the basic flaw in the character of Germans, and he replied "obedience." When I consider the ghastly orders obeyed by underlings of Columbus, or of Aztec priests supervising human sacrifices, or of senile Chinese bureaucrats wishing to silence unarmed, peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square only three years ago as I write, I have to wonder if obedience isn't the basic flaw in most of humankind. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. — Ray Bradbury

That no one dies of migraine seems to someone deep in an attack as an ambiguous blessing. — Joan Didion

The contumelies of tyranny are the worst parts of it. — Edmund Burke

Life
luscious wet life bereft of
death, loss of empty shell
minus absent of nothing
exploding star cell
amoeba sweet algae
oxygen,
hydrogen flowering
in the vacuum of
space and magnetic motion. — H. Raven Rose

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big. — Scotty Bowman

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives. — Roberto Clemente