Transient And Pugnacious Quotes & Sayings

You don't lose much when the landlord's house burns down. Another landlord will always turn up, unless it's the same one, German or French, English or Chinese, to collect the rent ... In marks or francs? What difference does it make, seeing you've got to pay ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Next thing she knows she's lying flat on her back and three grizzled Mexicans are standing over her, trying — Ben Fountain

In an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mound. Aboriginal, it rises profoundly and darkly enigmatic, the only elevation of any kind in the wild, flat jungle of river bottom. Even to some of us - children though we were, yet we were descended to literate, town-bred people - it possessed inferences of secret and violent blood, of savage and sudden destruction, as though the yells and hatchets we associated with Indians through the hidden and seceret dime novels which we passed among ourselves were but trivial and momentary manifestations of what dark power still dwelled or lurked there, sinister, a little sardonic, like a dark and nameless beast lightly and lazily slumbering with bloody jaws ... — William Faulkner

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. — Kenneth Tynan

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me. — Gerry Beckley

When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders ... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore ... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent. — Jonathan Raban

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet. — James Wolcott

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses. — John Christopher

Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift. — Louise Penny

Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious. — Debasish Mridha

I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball. — Home Run Baker

I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles. — Holly Golightly

It's not rocket science, Nan. You show someone they matter to you - do whatever it takes to show that. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars! — W.E.B. Du Bois

When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe. — Charley Harper