Spined Soldier Quotes & Sayings

Pushing through some viney branches, she comes into a clearing andfinds a sight that makes her hush
and not just her voice but every part of her, like feeling silence in her deep guts ...
It's something she can feel in the back of her throat, her dislike of the scene
as though what she's looking upon is unholy, the conjunction of chaos and order in a forced fit where everything is stretched and bent in the wrong way like those baby legs. — Alden Bell

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. — Andre Gide

Recently, everything around me felt familiar yet amiss, like the first time you ride in the back seat of your own car. — Vendela Vida

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it. — Val Kilmer

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. — Alain De Botton

I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do. — Eugene Richards

People who don't read fiction really scare me. — Tenaya Jayne

It comes, I suppose," I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, "of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don't always stay where you put them. — Naomi Novik

between the word and the world lie
fading eternities of soon — Laura Riding

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat? — Neal A. Maxwell

The 4th sort of creatures ... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate, ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand. There was discover'd by me a fifth sort, which had near the thickness of the former, but they were almost twice as long.
The first time bacteria were observed. — Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you. — Nelson Algren

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity. — Suzanne Fields

Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!'
'I don't know, a bowl?'
'Non ... I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants! — Louise Rennison