Sutured Iol Quotes & Sayings

The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us. — James Carroll

You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek. — Scott Westerfeld

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with. — Gerald Stanley Lee

Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort. — Carmen Agra Deedy

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves. — John Locke

Surprise is your best weapon. — Morgan Rice

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. — Johann G. Seume

Even in the face of certain adversity, a true lady always makes a graceful exit. — Jessica Jefferson

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. — Vida Blue

It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat. — Richard Pryor

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts ... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert' ... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything. — Peter McWilliams

Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

I am human. I talk and I listen and I read. — Walter Tevis

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. — Carol Ann Duffy