Sveinur Quotes & Sayings

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work. — Nick Park

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next. — Glen Duncan

Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You're almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet. — Kim Harrison

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures. — Stephen King

Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth! — Clint Smith

I've gotten to go to a lot of places that I never would have been able to go and been able to meet a lot of people. And every now and then you'll be doing something and you're like, "I can't believe I get to do this." — Rob Huebel

There was nothing dignified about peeing behind a tree with your super-cute wilderness tour guide lurking nearby. — Desni Dantone

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better. — Austin O'Malley

Art has no answers, only solutions, and resolutions... Art has only vision and revision... Art has only hope and more hope... again and again, against circumstance and history... What we hope life might be, again and again, against what we see it has been. In hope, there is a reason to continue. — Israel Horovitz

Much of modern preaching is anaemic, with the life-blood of God's nature absent from the message. Evangelists centre their message upon the man. Man has sinned and missed a great blessing. If man wants to retrieve his immense loss he must act thus and so. But the Gospel of Christ is very different. It begins with God and His glory. It tells men that they have offended a holy God, who will by no means pass by sin. It reminds sinners that the only hope of salvation is to be found in the grace and power of this same God. Christ's Gospel sends men to beg pardon of the Holy One. — Walter Chantry

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project. — Jerry Spinelli

Seizing a cudgel from the nearest priest, he laid about him like a veritable demon as he forged his rapid way toward the altar. The hand of La had paused at the first noise of interruption. When she saw who the author of it was she went white. She had never been able to fathom the secret of the strange white man's escape from the dungeon in which she had locked him. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer. — Will Eisner

I see you are working your usual magic this evening." "Not magic, Madame. Just me." Agnes — Jessie Burton