Trajans Wall Quotes & Sayings

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too. — James S.A. Corey

The aesthetes of Des Esseintes' generation found diamonds common, rubies and emeralds depreciated, and turquoises vulgar. The old poetry was dead, though echoes of it lived on in the names of such gems as chrysoberyl and peridot and olivines and almandines and cymophanes and aquamarines. Beauty which has departed from things may live on in words. — Joan Evans

When you make the dream of your heart a treasure of heaven, it holds an eternal value. — Deborah Brodie

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that. — Cherry Jones

There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides. — Adrienne Rich

I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives. — Aaron Schock

It only takes one cell to start cancer. — Arnaldur Indridason

This is the pre-verbal language that linguists call Mentalese. Hardly a language, more a matrix of shifting patterns, consolidating and compressing meaning in fractions of a second, and blending it inseparably with its distinctive emotional hue ... So that when a flash of red streaks in across his left peripheral vision ... it already has the quality of an idea ... unexpected and dangerous, but entirely his, and not of the world beyond himself. — Ian McEwan

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just? — Marcus Aurelius

I bought the Heartbreak Hotel, on my own with no investors. Closed it down and opened the Fuck You, Get Over It bed and breakfast. — Scroobius Pip

You do not mess with the special investigators. — Lee Child

The USO tours I've been part of have definitely been the highlight of my career and my life. — Kellie Pickler