Solas Salon Quotes & Sayings

Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. — Patrick Rothfuss

Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy. — Cherie Priest

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. — Chuck Schumer

The only life you have the right to sacrifice for the greater good is your own. — Brent Weeks

Always aim for 100 percent and you'll always know where to improve. — Ron Kaufman

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other
outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed. — Gavrilo Princip

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that. — Cormac McCarthy

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them. — Todd Solondz

You will tell me the quiet story of your day's work, without any object except to give me your thoughts and your life. You will speak of your childhood memories. I shall not understand them very well because You will be able to give me, perforce, only insufficient details, but I shall love your sweet strange language. — Henri Barbusse

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: He taught the love of truth. — David McCullough

Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson