Sirenitas Quotes & Sayings

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver. — Foster Friess

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody. — Marshall McLuhan

How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young girl instead. Why couldn't I have been born to a better world? — Gary Shteyngart

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. — Samuel Johnson

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast. — Brian May

I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. — P.G. Wodehouse

Boy children are primed to expect everything from their wives in the marriage, and not give too much if anything at all. — Pinki Virani

I almost always urge people to write in the first person ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser

Though it was mid-July, the morning was brisk, the sky a gray cotton of clouds, and Puget Sound a steely, cold blue. Most of Seattle grumbled, worn with winterish weather, impatient for the elusive summer sun. With umbrellas tucked away in the trunks of cars, sunglasses lost and separated from their original purchasers, the Pacific Northwest was a bastion of misty air and pale, complaining residents. — Courtney Kirchoff

If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to us. They could trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, and they would share with us the universe's future. However, the surest common culture would be mathematics. — Martin Rees

Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values. — L. Tom Perry

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive. — Mark Twain

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state. — Alexander Pope

Diamonds are the tears of the poor. — Helen McCloy

His arms got tight before he whispered, You like where you are just as much as I like you here. — Kristen Ashley