Tanais Quotes & Sayings

Jezal swallowed and hunched his shoulders, watching the chunks of long dead wood file slowly past like rows of tombstones. "I don't like this," he muttered under his breath.
"You think I do?" Bayaz frowned grimly over at him. "You think any of us do? Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered. It is through struggle, not ease, that fame and honor are won. It is through conflict, not peace, that wealth and power are gained. — Joe Abercrombie

My heart is yours, Cesare. And we are both damned for it. — Jeanne Kalogridis

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues. — P. Chidambaram

Sometimes you have to leave someone special without any reason, Sometimes you can't leave the person with thousands of reason to leave — Sid

To pray with Joshua's bold confidence, we must know the will of God. And the only way to know the will of God is by learning to know Him personally through His Word. — Melody Mason

I was married once
in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad. — W.C. Fields

I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest. — Al Capp

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly — Bear Grylls

Who will dare say he has defined art? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby. — Picabo Street

There was another world below - this was the problem. Another world below that had volume but no form. By day the sea was blue surface and whitecaps, a realistic navigational challenge, and the problem could be overlooked. By night, though, the mind went forth and dove down through the yielding - the violently lonely - nothingness on which the heavy steel ship traveled, and in every moving swell you saw a travesty of grids, you saw how truly and forever lost a man would be six fathoms under. Dry land lacked this z-axis. Dry land was like being awake. Even in chartless desert you could drop to your knees and pound land with your fist and land didn't give. Of course the ocean, too, had a skin of wakefulness. But every point on this skin was a point where you could sink and by sinking disappear. — Jonathan Franzen

Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres. — Selma Fraiberg

One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were. — Charles Stross

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs. — Vladimir Nabokov

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling. — Michael Giles