Short Drummers Quotes & Sayings

He held up a finger and went to the hallway, where he tripped over Blotchy, and then over the two monster cats madly pursuing Blotchy. Swearing, he leaned over the landing and called to the guard that unless the kingdom fell to war or his daughter was dying, he better not be interrupted until further notice. — Kristin Cashore

Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage. — Doris Lessing

People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you. — Hedi Slimane

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance. — Francis Bacon

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state. — Joseph Sobran

What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the fact that I wanted to talk. I was not there to plug things. I don't do a hell of a lot of research. I go on a sort of kindred-spirit bonding that preexists the interview, and just see what unfolds. — Marc Maron

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? — John Milton

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The highest mode of corruption is the abuse of power. — Auliq Ice

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. — Ashley Montagu

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. — Gwyneth Paltrow

In the city people are moving down sidewalks, up and down escalators, along aisles; they are stationed in the driver's seat of buses, at gas pumps, computers, and cash registers. There is a low-intensity fear in them. They avoid turning in certain directions, flailing their arms or poking their hands in certain ways. They respect invisible barriers. — Alphonso Lingis

It was lovely meeting you.Tell Ember I said good-bye."
"You're welcome here anytime, Princess," Thomas said, and I could actually hear Annali hitting him in the arm as I walked out of the cottage. — Amanda Hocking

I do know I can lie awake all night and it feels as if someone is cutting out my stomach the pain of having lost her is so awful. And I am angry that I was made to choose, that both Fen & Helen needed me to choose, to be their one & only when I didn't want a one & only. I loved that Amy Lowell poem when I first read it, how her lover was like red wine at the beginning and then became bread. But that has not happened to me. My loves remain wine to me, yet I become too quickly bread to them. It was unfair, the way I had to decide one way or another in Marseille. Perhaps I made the conventional choice, the easy way for my work, my reputation, and of course for a child. A child that does not come. — Lily King

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as ... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs. — Captain Beefheart