Spelta Brasno Quotes & Sayings

I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift ... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case. — Jess Walter

Inventors and geniuses, at the beginning of their careers (and very often at the end as well), have almost always been regarded in society as no more than fools - that is a most routine observation, well known to everyone. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Leave it to a writer's mind to add two and two together and come up with 69. — Stjepan Sejic

One problem I have definitely solved is the problem of not having enough to worry about. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken. — Jackie Kay

If he was dull as a statesman he was more dull in private life, and it may be imagined that such a woman as his wife would find some difficulty in making his society the source of her happiness. Their marriage, in a point of view regarding business, had been a complete success, - and a success, too, when on the one side, that of Lady Glencora, there had been terrible dangers of shipwreck, and when on his side also there had been some little fears of a mishap. — Anthony Trollope

If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it? — Naguib Mahfouz

Love with a peaceful mind and bring peace with the power of love. — Debasish Mridha

No, bwother, I have gwown moustaches myself, — Leo Tolstoy

Problems never just go away or take care of themselves, especially when God allows them in order to shape our character. God will patiently wait and allow the circumstances to compel us to do what we should have done at the beginning: surrender all control to God. — Wayne Stiles

The gloss would fade in about five minutes as the surface dried; but everything faded. The vital thing was to make the most of the moments of brightness. — Sarah Waters