Stiltskin Footsteps Quotes & Sayings

At five in the morning the Loire is still and sumptuous with mist. The water is beautiful at that time of the day, cool and magically pale, the sandbanks rising like lost continents. The water smells of night, and here and there a spray of new sunlight makes mica shadows on the surface. — Joanne Harris

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation. — Dean Koontz

A blank space on a form, the missing page, a void, a hole in your knowledge of someone--it's still some real thing. It exists. You don't get to fill it in with whatever you want. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from. — Agnes Obel

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life. — Martin Henderson

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more. — Manu Bennett

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative. — H.A.L. Fisher

Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman? — Kate Zambreno

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us. — Steve Aylett

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing. — Maria Semple

You may be wondering what else I do with my free time. I spend a lot of it sitting around on my lazy ass watching TV. But also do you, so don't judge. — Andy Weir

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult. — Frank Carlucci

Since Thami had the Arab's utter incomprehension of the meaning of pornography, he imagined that the police had placed the ban on obscene films because these infringed upon Christian doctrine at certain specific points, in which case any Christian might be expected to show interest, if only to disapprove. — Paul Bowles

Again, was it not this same presentiment of death that made it seem so strange to me now that I should never again walk along this path in the Philippine forest? In our own country, even in the most distant or inaccessible part, this feeling of strangeness never comes to us, because subconsciously we know that there is always a possibility of our returning there in the future. Does not our entire life-feeling depend upon this inherent assumption that we can repeat indefinitely what we are doing at the moment? — Shohei Ooka

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.)
[Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.] — Plautus