Snorre Sturlason Quotes & Sayings

And honestly, given the choice of facing my mother or a vampire, I think I'd always choose the latter. — Krystle Jones

I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?' — Wayne Wonder

These squatters aren't just aliens, drifters and undesirables. They're new world barbarians, conquering free spaces and making them their own. — James W. Bodden

Retirement? You're talking about death, right? — Robert Altman

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility. — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

When I won the Tony, I blacked out. I don't remember anything. I had bullet points jotted down, but I forgot to read half of them. My hands were shaking. It was an insane honor to be recognized in that way. — Nina Arianda

There is a place where the mountains tumble one upon the other off into the far distance, peak after treeless peak. Steep ridges connect them and deep canyons slash them apart. The grassy summits are wreathed with black sage. No roads intrude upon this jumble of oak-filled canyons and steep-sided hills, only the ambling trails made by deer, coyotes, and bears. The local Indians believe the spirits of the ancients still travel these roads. — R. Lawson Gamble

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. — Aristotle.

Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but ... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly.
"Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them. — Charlaine Harris

Fulfillment in knowing you are doing what God called you to do is far better than merely feeling comfortable. — Lorna Dobson

The Founding Fathers of the United States understood the risk of tribal religious conflict very well. George Washington observed, "Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing and ought most to be deprecated." James Madison agreed, noting the "torrents of blood" that result from religious competition. John Adams insisted that "the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." America has slipped a bit since then. — Edward O. Wilson

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat. — Roy Blount Jr.

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. — Helen Macdonald

You could not have done it better than Hughes. — Robert Pape