Sparting Quotes & Sayings

For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude. - Virginia Woolf, The Waves — Virginia Woolf

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that. — Jon Favreau

Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing. — Orson Scott Card

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better. — Ginny Brown-Waite

Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character. — J. William Fulbright

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker

One evening I let a stranger buy me a round of a local specialty called, whimsically, amnesia ... — Elizabeth Kostova

But it wasn't really empty. Because here in the Overlook things just went on and on. — Stephen King

To be filled with bliss and harmony on earth is a reflection of heaven order — Sunday Adelaja