Unflurried Quotes & Sayings

Climbed that roost, alighted right there.
Made mush of his head for the onlooker bears.
A two-pronger her prize, a meat most rare.
Do-gooders will pay. Do-gooders will fear. — Darrell Drake

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night. — William Shakespeare

Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even their own destinies were to them saga and folk-tale rather than a private matter; these were men under a spell, men who had been turned into birds or even more likely into some strange beast, and who bore their magic shapes with the same unflurried equanimity, magnanimity, and dignity that we children had marvelled at the beasts of fairy tale. Did they not suspect, moreover, with the wordless apprehension of animals, that if their magic shapes were to be stripped from them the fairy tale would be at an end and their security gone, too, while real life would begin with all it's problems, perhaps in some town where there was neither nature or mirage, no link with the folk-tale and the past, no ancient path to the far side of the mountains and down to the river gullies and out beyond the grass plains, no landmarks from the Sagas? - Only a restless search for sterile, deadening enjoyment. — Halldor Laxness

You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying ships, of real-time genetic mutation. More than alien. More than human! The next step in our evolution as a species! — Kane

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes. — Jerry Saltz

A Master without a submissive is a guy. Just a guy. — Jason Luke

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity. — Timothy Radcliffe

snowy mountains are, and the sea, they say, with the distant — Various

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out. — Daniel Day-Lewis

The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians. — William MacDonald

It was one of the two questions people most frequently asked writers, and if he invited her to join him, it wouldn't take her long to get around to the other one. "I've always wanted to know, Colin. Where do you authors get your ideas?"
We steal them.
From extraterrestrials.
There's a warehouse outside Tulsa ... — Susan Elizabeth Phillips