Stiring Quotes & Sayings

The singing wasn't the hopscotch-jumprope-happy kind. This was the kind of singing that, if you tracked it to its source, you might find a little girl in a moldy old burial dress, her skin pitted & green, with lots of coffin splinters & dirt between her teeth ...
... like a mermaid luring idiot sailors ... Winny wasn't a sailor, & he wasn't old enough to get all sexed up by some hot siren. — Dean Koontz

Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition. — Anne Waldman

There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes. — Madhuri Dixit

The economic times we are facing ... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought. — Alistair Darling

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. — Norman Spinrad

Better late than never."-Dork Diaries — Rachel Renee Russell

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

The factory is the machine that builds the machine. — Elon Musk

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion. — Muriel Spark

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life. — Tom Watson