Talunes Quotes & Sayings

Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people. — George R R Martin

We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn't matter a damn bit. We're no avatars, no sons of god or man. We're only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone. — Dan Simmons

Can you "choose" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours? — David Foster Wallace

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field. — Franco Harris

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly. — Liam Neeson

There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness. — Ray Kroc

The difference between mediocrity and excellence is often a matter of effort. — Diana Waring

I always feel I'm getting near to something that's got more to it than I can get hold of. — Jack Shadbolt