The Phoenix Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes & Sayings

America is the first country ... that can actually have a bloodless revolution. — Malcolm X

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority. — Robert Falcon Scott

Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places? — Khadija Rupa

There has been a cultural shift in the way we communicate, and that, in turn, has had an effect on our relating. We have traded substance and depth for speed and convenience. — Philip D. Halfacre

There's a pause so yawning I can't help but think about what it would be like to lean in and kiss her, but if I'm getting the signals wrong then I'm about to destroy the best run we've had all evening. It's been at least ten minutes since I've done or said anything stupid. — Leanne Hall

The negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative — Thomas Hardy

That's a voice that arrives on a chariot drawn by dragons — Rainbow Rowell

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature — Stanley Ellin

The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man. — G.H. Hardy

You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with a special guided bus tour highlighting the rise of the crack trade, yet you can hop on a bus in Chicago tomorrow to see the famous locales of murders. I have to imagine there's some wonderful academic book on the sociology of this out there. — Tod Goldberg

making soil soup deep — Bell Hooks

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. — Theodore Sturgeon

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York. — Layne Staley