Tundras Quotes & Sayings

I intend to grow old very disgracefully. — Cilla Black

If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama! — Eric Jerome Dickey

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired. — Edmund Phelps

Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them.
Coronado: Stories — Dennis Lehane

Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout."
"Whithout what? — Jonathan Stroud

How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity of the Siberian taigas, over the brown deserts where the Earth's salt shines, over the high peaks capped with silver, over the shivering jungles, over the undulating forests of the tropics! Day after day, through infinite time, the scenery has changed in imperceptible features. Let us smile at the illusion of eternity that appears in these things, and while so many temporary aspects fade away, let us listen to the ancient hymn, the spectacular song of the seas, that has saluted so many chains rising to the light. — Emile Argand

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats ... these are the facts. — Alexander Trocchi

After the meal was done, the brothers moved slowly, as if drugged or sleepy, which made me wonder if it was similar to the post-turkey feeling on Thanksgiving Day. — Colleen Houck