Steve Belmarsh Quotes & Sayings

In the Citadel, it was simply called the strangler. Dissolved in wine, it would make the muscles of a man's throat clench tighter than any fist, shutting off his windpipe. They said a victim's face turned as purple as the little crystal seed from which his death was grown, but so too did a man choking on a morsel of food. — George R R Martin

Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players. — Milan Kundera

I'm starting to find my own style. — Kara Hayward

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way. — Mohsin Hamid

This book is for everyone who has survived. You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again. — Jessica Park

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan. — Arno Allan Penzias

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. — Jeffrey Zeldman

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex. — Fred Rogers

Remember your grandpa's saying: kill them with kindness. — C.B. Cook

I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive! — Maelle Gavet

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part. — John Eaton

Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week. — Michael Symon

It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems." — Nathaniel Branden

But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence.
(Moby Dick Chapter lxxix p345) — Herman Melville