Toboe X Quotes & Sayings

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere. — Diana Wynne Jones

Every man, who proposes to grow eminent by learning, should carry in his mind, at once, the difficulty of excellence, and the force of industry; and remember that fame is not conferred but as the recompense of labour, and that labour, vigorously continued, has not often failed of its reward. — Samuel Johnson

Never ask a woman why she's angry at you. She will either get angrier at you for not knowing, or she'll tell you. Both ways, you lose. — Ian Shoales

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same. — Marjane Satrapi

But then I looked in the glass and saw the spy beyond the clergyman, the image beyond the image, and beyond the spy was yet another man, the image beyond the image beyond the image. Reality blurred; fantasy and truth became inextricably intertwined. I told myself I had imagined the distant stranger but as I felt my personality begin to divide I covered my face with my hands. — Susan Howatch

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality. — Lauren Willig

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. — Walter Bagehot

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does. — W. H. Auden

Many, many good things have I bought! Many, many bad things have I fought! — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth. — Joseph Campbell