Triangulated Quotes & Sayings

A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof.
Bermuda triangulated. — Chuck Palahniuk

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs. — Meg Cabot

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them ... — Agatha Christie

People need to have "the dignity of risk" and "the right to fail". — Patricia E. Deegan

If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear
but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister
but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. — J.J. Abrams

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact. — David O. McKay

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. — Will Rogers

You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically.
I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives. — Mitch Albom

literature," I said. "What's — Lemony Snicket

I'm a fucker. It's what I do — C.D. Reiss

When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders. — Scott Weiss

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. — George Santayana

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart. — Charles Krauthammer

Captain," the canoeist named Eric began, taking a step forward. "Have we been Bermuda triangulated? — Talia R. Blackwood

It was all about release, about letting go of the unknowns.
I was having a disabled child and that was that. There were no hidden truths to discover. I would not know anything about her birth, her survivability odds, all her ailments, until her life actually unfolded. — Ariana Carruth

I'm trained as an architect; writing is like architecture. In buildings, there are design motifs that occur again and again, that repeat
patterns, curves. These motifs help us feel comfortable in a physical space. And the same works in writing, I've found. For me, the way words, punctuation and paragraphs fall on the page is important as well
the graphic design of the language. That was why the words and thoughts of Estha and Rahel, the twins, were so playful on the page ... I was being creative with their design. Words were broken apart, and then sometimes fused together. "Later" became "Lay. Ter." "An owl" became "A Nowl." "Sour metal smell" became "sourmetal smell."
Repetition I love, and used because it made me feel safe. Repeated words and phrases have a rocking feeling, like a lullaby. They help take away the shock of the plot
death, lives destroyed or the horror of the settings
a crazy, chaotic, emotional house, the sinister movie theater. — Arundhati Roy

[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb. — John Milton