Transarc Quotes & Sayings

The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity. — Frederick Lenz

A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library should be full of exclamations! Shouts of delight and horror as the wonders of the world are discovered or the lies of the heavens are uncovered or the wild adventures of devil-knows-who sent romping out of the pages. A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong. It should positively vibrate with laughing at comedies and sobbing at tragedies, it should echo with gasps as decent ladies glimpse indecent things and indecent ladies stumble upon secret and scandalous decencies! A Library should not shush; it should roar! — Catherynne M Valente

The Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: "For every apostrophe omitted from an it's, there is an extra one put into an its." Thus the number of apostrophes in circulation remains constant, even if this means we have double the reason to go and bang our heads against a wall. — Lynne Truss

She got off to feeding him. And getting her off got him off, so it was a win-win. — Azure Boone

Birds looked like an echo of birds, fat white clouds looked as if they were there to sell you fabric softener or air travel or health insurance. — Alexandra Kleeman

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways. — Jeff Ryan

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack. — Michael Shannon

Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job. — Otsuichi

Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we're unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. That's where you get to show who you really are — Sara Gran

I still have a headache," said
Charlotte, without looking up from the
floor.
"There, you see?" Aunt Glenda gave
a venomous smile.
"I have a headache too," said Mum.
"But that doesn't mean I'm about to start traveling in time. — Kerstin Gier

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole. — Andrew Bogut

Dreams translate the needs of our soul to provide opportunity for our conscious to divine it into reality. — Truth Devour

The heart's the trouble. It knows the monster but remembers the love. — Gemma Farrow

As they proceeded; still Franz and the count were compelled to advance in a stooping posture, and were scarcely able to proceed abreast of one another. They went on a hundred and fifty paces in this way, and then were stopped by, "Who comes there?" At the same time they saw the reflection of a torch on a carbine barrel. "A friend!" responded Peppino; and, advancing alone towards the sentry, he said a few words to him in a low tone; and then he, like the first, saluted the nocturnal visitors, making a sign that they might proceed. Behind the sentinel was a staircase with twenty steps. Franz and — Alexandre Dumas