Shubika Quotes & Sayings

For gold the merchant ploughs the main,
The farmer ploughs the manor. — Robert Burns

I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or accidental (and this includes suffering and grief
even that of others), and that sometimes one catches a glimpse of the link between these happenings. I believe
even when I am myself blind and deaf, or even indifferent
in the existence of a mystery ... — Iris Origo

Personally, I don't go and seek contact with fans, but if they happen to find me somewhere I'll say hello and speak to them for a while. — Nick Wechsler

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see. — Roxane Gay

A builder looks for the rotten hole where the roof caved in. A water carrier picks the empty pot. A carpenter stops at the house with no door. Workers rush toward some hint of emptiness, which they then start to fill. Their hope, though, is for emptiness, so don't think you must avoid it. It contains what you need! Dear soul, if you were not friends with the vast nothing inside, why would you always be casting your net into it, and waiting so patiently? This — Jalaluddin Rumi

She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air. — Edith Wharton

I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do. — Daniela Bobadilla

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time. — Melissa McBride

I believe God is offering me the chance to lift someone who needs me. My aunt taught me there's always someone who needs us. — Dorothy Adamek

I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before I go to bed. If my mother were to come in during this process and say, 'Turn off that light. It's late,' I with a lifted finger and broad bland beatific expression, would reply, 'On the contrary, I answer that the light, being eternal and limitless, cannot be turned off. Shut your eyes,' or some such thing. — Flannery O'Connor

It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And, rare for me, I wrote scenes out of sequence ... I didn't understand the play when I wrote it. It was something I'd give in to. It happens to me periodically. I give over and write whatever comes to me and I don't know what it means and then I do. It's thrilling. — David Rabe

In traditional crime fiction every detective with any self-respect has an unfailing nose for when people are lying. It's bullshit! Human nature is a vast impenetrable forest which no one can know in its entirety. Not even a mother knows her child's deepest secrets. — Jo Nesbo

We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false. — Jorge Luis Borges