Skalanam Quotes & Sayings

From Genesis to Revelation
Here I come
Here I come to dub the nation! — Lee "Scratch" Perry

I'm not super thin, but I'm thin, for like, Detroit — Lena Dunham

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. — Gertrude Stein

Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer. — Elizabeth George

With this life I give you endurance. Use it to keep going, even when you feel as though all hope and strength have left you. — Erin Hunter

Did you catch the time-of-great-suffering thing?"
Her expression softened. "Can you just make sure I'm not around when it happens?"
"No can do," I said, strolling back to my office with a negating wave of my hand. "If I have to suffer, then so does everyone else within a ten-mile radius."
She pursed her lips. "What ever happened to taking one for the team?"
"Was never much of a team player."
"Sacrificing yourself for the greater good?"
"Not that into human sacrifice."
"Suffering in silence?"
I stopped and turned back to her, my eyes narrowing accusingly. "If I have to suffer, I'll be screaming your name at the top of my lungs the whole time. You'll be able to hear me all the way to Jersey, mark my words."
- Charley to Cookie — Darynda Jones

Wishing that I could stay right here in this moment of not doing, but simply being, forever. — Rachel Harris

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy. — Charles Darwin

Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity. — Sallust

He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because he was afraid of responsibility. Now, his marriage over and his child no longer speaking to him, he turned off all the lights in the house because he was afraid of the dark — Michael Ventura

For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet."
"How do you do that?'
"Do what?"
"Say things like that. That's beautiful."
"I've spent years studying poetry, Mrs. Emerson. It's in my DNA. — Sylvain Reynard

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. — Robert A. Heinlein

For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth. — Herman Melville

It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show. — Gillian Flynn

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. — Garrison Keillor