Skylas The Skyland Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles. — Tracy Chevalier

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive. — Kathryn Bigelow

If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy. — Craig Groeschel

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion. — Ken Starr

We have something to hide. We have secrets, worries, thoughts, hopes, desires, passions which no one else gets to know. We are sensitive when people get near those domains with their questions. And now, against all rules of tact the Bible speaks of the truth that in the end we will appear before Christ with everything we are and were ... . And we all know that we could justify ourselves before any human court, but not before this one. Lord, who can justify themselves?1 Bonhoeffer's sermon for Repentance sunday, November 19, 1933 — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life was like a river, and the river flowed in one direction and one direction only. Sometimes it moved nice and easy through familiar territory; other times it became wild and turbulent and carried you to untamed lands. You either made the most of the ride or you didn't. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

If I had followed every urge I ever had, I would have had much more sex and killed a lot more people — Tommy Cotton

I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along. — Agyness Deyn

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts
and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and be knowledgeable about the opera, have strong opinions about the relative rankings of Renaissance painters, an encyclopedic knowledge of the English civil war, of French wines
I feel an anxiety that nudges beyond the envious into the existential. How did she find the time? — Zadie Smith

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected. — Nate Berkus