Sophiticated Quotes & Sayings

If a transaction in progress appeared threatened with failure, if a shipment of goods seemed to have gone astray, or if a debtor appeared unable to repay his debt, Kamaswami was never able to persuade Siddhartha that it was useful to speak words of worry or of anger, to have a wrinkled brow, or to sleep poorly. — Hermann Hesse

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan. — Joe Mantegna

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others. — Dalai Lama

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world we learned as children to fear
the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.
-from Dracula In Love — Karen Essex

Maybe I don't know what love is, but it isn't this. — Tara MacLean

La Dorada skulked into view. She was half-mummified, but sodden. Gooey.
Regin let out a low whistle. The Mummy Returns meets Dingoes Ate My Face. — Kresley Cole

Any earthly production would have been cancelled at the slightest suggestion of rain, but this was William's Stage - it was William's call - and if the children danced and the congregation remained transfixed, the show would go on. — Jake Vander Ark

Sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul — Adam Savage

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. — Dante Alighieri

I'd said to them that when we read fiction, we pour our own paricular store of emotions - say, the sense of loss we feel for those disappeared from our lives - into the characters set before us. We take the few words with which the writer sketches these characters, the thing he said, the pain she felt, where they were, and our own emotional stockpile magically creates people. As the human eye fleshes out the pixilated image. Fictional characters are highly sophiticated Rorschach blots, and we, along with their author, are their authors. When you read a fictional character, you too are creating her. — Chandler Burr

There's always room for a unicorn. Three — Lindsey Kelk