Skivelat Quotes & Sayings

One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked. — Delano Johnson

If we don't get a good day's work out of you, we'll maroon you.
He ignored Barnaby's raised eyebrow. They'd never marooned anybody before, even the English nobles they hated, but Gideon meant to put the fear of God into the man. — Sabrina Jeffries

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me. — Corey Taylor

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect. — James Nasmyth

That in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. — John Millington Synge

I should get points for not saying every dumb thing that pops in my head. — Susan Bischoff

What is our hope but the indwelling Spirit of Christ, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, to inspire every word and deed by His love? Then will "broken lights" blend in steady shining, the fractional be summed up in the integral, and life, unified and beautified by the central Christ, radiate God's glory, and shine with divine effulgence. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock