Testament Of Orpheus Quotes & Sayings

I yank open the cutlery drawer to be confronted with an anomaly worse than emails from dead people or a man with a gun sitting on my bed. It's a large carving knife with a viciously serrated edge and two broken teeth. It's tarnished with rust. It's not mine. And neither is the china figurine of a kitten with one paw playfully raised, also stained with rust. But it's not rust. It's not rust at all. Perversely, the thought that flashes through my brain is "I can haz murder weapon?" I laugh out loud, a sobbing hiccup. — Lauren Beukes

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that. — Jose Mourinho

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me. — James Frey

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. — George Orwell

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here. — Michael Franti

Was it that these particular occult streets had been made, then hidden? Their names leaked as traps in an elaborate double-bluff, so that no one could go except those who knew that such
traps were actually destinations? Or were there really no streets there when the traps were set? Perhaps these cul-de-scas were residues, yawned into illicit existence when the atlases were drawn up by liars. — China Mieville

A good man has as much chance of dying as a bad one. Maybe more so. — Paullina Simons

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little. — Paul Dano

I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me. — Linda Blair

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match. — Bernard Hopkins

The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion. — Peter F. Hamilton