Siripon Yuktadatta Quotes & Sayings

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible. — Stephen King

Do you understand the stakes involved?"
"Other than the financial ones?"
"What other kind of stakes could there be?"
Matthew sent him a sardonic glance. "Your daughter's heart. Her future happiness. Her - "
"Bah! People don't marry to be happy. Or if they do, they soon discover it's hog-swill."
Despite his black mood, Matthew smiled slightly. "If you're hoping to inspire me in the direction of wedlock," he said, "it's not working. — Lisa Kleypas

Even in the wolfswood, you never found more than two or three of the white trees growing together; a grove of nine was unheard of. The forest floor was carpeted with fallen leaves, bloodred on top, black rot beneath. The wide smooth trunks were bone pale, and nine faces stared inward. The dried sap that crusted in the eyes was red and hard as ruby. — George R R Martin

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works. — Jan Gehl

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers. — Walter Lippmann

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. — Barack Obama

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life. — Lesley Manville

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form. — Robert Frost

The James Bond movies and the comic books had it all wrong. You did not need elaborate contraptions, complicated plans, and futuristic doomsday weapons to wipe out of all of humankind. All you needed was a fully realized vision and an intense focus. All you needed to do is give a little push to what was already happening; what was inevitable.
All you had to do is get one group of people who believe in an invisible man in the sky to get really pissed off at another group of people who believe in a slightly different version of the same invisible man in the sky. — James J. Caterino

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks. — Rene Daumal