Siberias Door Quotes & Sayings

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one. — Francis Bacon

Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered.
And knew that You had been right. Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always would be, everywhere. — Terry Pratchett

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest. — Margot Asquith

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become. — Marc Ian Barasch

My friends and I were famous, if that's the word, as The Lice. We were small, annoying, and constantly in someone's hair. — Wayne Turmel

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to? — Jim Hodges

I sometimes wonder why I do so much research - I look at other successful writers, and I think it must just be so relaxing to write about flying horses or something, but I have to make it plausible. — Michelle Paver

Vimes, on the other hand, was prepared to hit anything with anything. The point was that the opponent shouldn't get up again. Everything else was decoration. — Terry Pratchett

And so it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a teenager to enter the kingdom of heaven listening to the Dave Matthews Band. — Douglas Wilson

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? — Bill Maher

If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit ... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are. — George Hook

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions. — Eli Broad