Suthonal Quotes & Sayings

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person ... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator. — Buchi Emecheta

Excuse me? Did I miss something? What has ever been romantic about vomit?
"A man standing by your side when you're sick. Holding your hair back from your face ... that's romantic."
"In what alternate universe do you live? Here in a place I like to call reality, that's disgusting. Who in their right mind would find that romantic? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers? — Gil Kalai

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it. — Dick Dale

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game. — Paul Harding

All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore. — Naomi Novik

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it? — Terry Pratchett

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him. — Thomas Merton

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous. — James Dobson

...To see your life flow in obscurity among the treasures of the heart and of nature, happy in your anonymity, and to occasionally lose yourself in reading or in the pleasure of being a sensitive admirer of the fine arts; that's the image of modern life you're looking for! — Paul Amadeus Dienach

A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders ... — Samael Aun Weor

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles

You must let life flow naturally, for life's secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold. — Leon Brown