Stolicus Quotes & Sayings

There are two movies where I keep my clothes on. My parents will be very proud. They're challenging characters, which I'm excited about. — Juno Temple

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety. — Thomas Merton

What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the "life of the mind": thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding. — Gary Gutting

If the Palestinians took up arms, went into Israel and killed all the Jews, it'd be alright — Professor Griff

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into. — John Corey Whaley

To the starving man, bread is beautiful. To the homeless man, a roof is beautiful. To the drunkard, wine is beautiful. Only those who want for nothing else need find beauty in a lump of rock. Stolicus — Joe Abercrombie

We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely. — Frances Moore Lappe

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner. — Rene Magritte

You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next. — Rachael Leigh Cook

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. — Robert Hass

The passion to teach, to share deeply
experienced "lessons from life," is embedded in all literature. — Vera B. Williams

There is only love to save this world. Why would I be ashamed to love? — Julie Maroh

Patience is the parent of success, Stolicus wrote. — Joe Abercrombie

We never lost that. As much as I tried, I
could never erase you from my heart. That's why I was such an asshole and kept guys away from you.
You were always mine. — Penelope Douglas

Listen . Keep silent .
You are not gods mouthpiece.
Try to be an ear. — Rumi

No plague spreads quicker than panic, Stolicus wrote, nor is more deadly. The — Joe Abercrombie

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is. — Johnny Rich

One battle at a time. - Stolicus — Joe Abercrombie