Tanisha Long Quotes & Sayings

They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and exhaustively lauded Alps no longer possess. Innumerable lovers have clipped and kissed on the trim turf of old-world mountainsides, on the innerspring moss, by a handy, hygienic rill, on rustic benches under the initialed oaks, and in so many cabanes in so so many beech forests. But in the Wilds of America the open-air lover will not find it easy to indulge in the most ancient of all crimes and pastimes. Poisonous plants burn his sweetheart's buttocks, nameless insects sting his; sharp items of the forest floor prick his knees, insects hers; and all around there abides a sustained rustle of potential snakes
que dis-je,of semi-extinct dragons!
while the crablike seeds of ferocious flowers cling, in a hideous green crust, to gartered black sock and sloppy white sock alike. — Vladimir Nabokov

Her lips were still moving, whispering the same words over and over. "They were all I could carry. They were all I could carry. — Laini Taylor

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today! — A.A. Milne

It was a good opportunity to show the Reds the guidelines on the catwalk. — Jonny Gomes

There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it. — Iain M. Banks

We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people. — Adrian Rogers

That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience. — Wally Lamb

i'm smooth,but not a criminal. — Michael James Jackson

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? — Alexander Pope

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination. — James Arthur Ray

I'm back ... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'. — Margaret Thatcher

When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg. — David Roberts

He who finds not opposition from [sin] ... is at peace with it, not dying to it. — John Owen

What happened? Why are you trying to burn a hole through Brother Enoch with your eyeballs? — Cassandra Clare

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it. — Joan Jett