Silvanesti Elves Quotes & Sayings

I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much. — Olly Murs

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. — Trent Reznor

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was. — Julian Barnes

While I waited for him in the woods, waiting for him before he saw me, I would think of him as dressed in sin. I would think of him as thinking of me as dressed also in sin, he the more beautiful since the garment which he had exchanged for sin was sanctified. I would think of the sin as garments which we would remove in order to shape and coerce the terrible blood to the forlorn echo of the dead word high in the air. — William Faulkner

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it's worse than zero, because it represents territory you're afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you'll abandon your book. — Timothy Hallinan

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake. — Dick Cheney

When a child has a cold with a bad cough, tell him to scat that cat out of him. — Angela Khristin Brown

It's what I've been trained to do. It's what's expected of me. To be responsible. To follow the rules. To make logical decisions and to use this precious brain, but Razor's teaching me there's more to me than logic- there's also a ton of passion. — Katie McGarry

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life. — Julian Bond

Reading is an enlightenment of the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind ... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them. — Maimonides

Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh. — Anne Carson

Getting drunk or high every night. Being hungover every morning. You run out of options at a certain point. You come to understand why everybody else is living the boring life. And it doesn't look so boring anymore. — Paul Russell