Stanched Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

And it's a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self. But that is a mistake. — Donna Tartt

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning. — Madeleine L'Engle

Ready." Green didn't need or want an answer. He slid his arm under Ruxs' throat and hooked his other one under his underarm, holding him in a secured position. He told Ruxs to take a deep breath, when he felt the rise of his back against his own chest he drove the rest of the way in. "Oh — A.E. Via

So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting about Rob's pitch and script was that he is a real Holmes-ian expert. He knew all of the mythology. He was very well-versed in the genesis of Holmes and the stories. And the twist with Watson is something we jumped at immediately. It's a very forward-thinking way of doing the show. — Nina Tassler

On Midsummer Eve, when the bonfires are lighted on every hill in honour of St. John, the fairies are at their gayest, and sometime steal away beautiful mortals to be their brides. — W.B.Yeats

Because anyone can hit a jackpot, right? You just have to play. And — Emma Scott

We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power. — Alexander Stille

For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years they've been considered different areas of inquiry, and now we're starting to go back to the idea that maybe they aren't two separate realms of inquiry. — Brad Warner

My heart is quite the best part of me. — L. Frank Baum

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.' — Katherine Paterson

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for. — Oscar Wilde

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to. — Joanna Newsom

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges. — Holly Madison

Imagine that you're an intelligent extraterrestrial, concerned only with verifiable truths. You discover a species that has divided itself into thousands - no, by now millions - of tribal groups holding an incredible variety of beliefs about the origin of the universe and the way to behave in it. Although many of them have ideas in common, even when there's 99% overlap, the remaining one percent's enough to set them killing and torturing each other, over trivial points of doctrine, utterly meaningless to outsiders. How to account for such irrational behavior? ( ... ) religion was the by-product of fear - a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe. For much of human prehistory, it may have been a necessary evil - but why was it so much more evil than necessary - and why did it survive when it was no longer necessary? — Arthur C. Clarke

Love, like virtue, is its own reward. — John Vanbrugh