Tiesiogiai Lnk Quotes & Sayings

You know, I think some people fear that if they like the wrong kind of book, it will reflect poorly on them. It can go with genre, too. Somebody will say, "I won't read science fiction, or I won't read young adult novels" - all of those genres can become prisons. I always find it funny when the serious literary world will make a little crack in its wall and allow in one pet genre writer and crown them and say, "Well Elmore Leonard is actually a real writer." Or "Stephen King is actually a really good writer." Generally speaking, you know you're being patronized when somebody uses the word "actually — Elizabeth Gilbert

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that. — Pharrell Williams

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives. — Angela Merkel

Just a few months ago in the Republican primary Mitt Romney said to his opponents, who he was crushing at the time, stop whining. And I think that's a good message for the Romney campaign. Instead of whining about what the Obama campaign is saying, why don't you just put the facts out there and let people decide rather than trying to hide them. — Stephanie Cutter

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us. — Sarah Black

A few lines to spell a man's doom. — Hugh Howey

When I'm moving down Broadway to meet Jean, my secretary, for brunch, in front of Tower Records a college student with a clipboard asks me to name the saddest song I know. I tell him, without pausing, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Beatles. — Anonymous

They didn't answer. But I was thinking. I'd had to do a lot of thinking like this over the past year, and it was starting to come naturally. — Gini Koch

By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven. — Edgar Allan Poe

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that. — Susan B. Anthony

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. — Billy Graham

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. — Lord Byron

Under the authority of a language that had been carefully expurgated so that it was no longer directly named, sex was taken charge of, tracked down as it were, by a discourse that aimed to allow it no obscurity, no respite. — Michel Foucault

His jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you. — John Knowles

He had vented all his woes and now they might as well see the few rags that covered his body, after which they could carry him away. — Franz Kafka