Skrido Quotes & Sayings

I want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of doritos at a party — Megan Boyle

An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. — Vera Nazarian

Someday, you'll learn that life isn't always what you want it to be. That you won't always get what you want. — Marie Lu

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn. — Carlos Gracie Jr.

Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words aren't for me. With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby's skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water. — Suzanne Collins

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better. — Jesse Kellerman

Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring. — Henry Moore

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure. — Elliott Abrams

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. — Christopher Marlowe

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them. — Lena Waithe

I'd love to have four or five kids. — Jennie Finch

At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth... At the height of the invocation the Intercessor lifted the cloth to reveal in the dimness a glass dome inside which there was something too distant to see, until he pulled a string attached to a shutter above, letting a ray of sunlight through to strike the dome exactly. Then it became clear: a little thing like a weathervane, with four sails black on one side and white on the other, began to whirl around as the light struck it. It illustrated a moral lesson, the Intercessor explained, for the black of ignorance fled from the light, whereas the wisdom of white rushed to embrace it.

{Alluding to William Crookes's radiometer.} — Philip Pullman