Unpurged Crawfish Quotes & Sayings

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot. — Maggie Stiefvater

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Any new pathway to citizenship is completely off the table ... [Illegal immigrants should be able to get citizenship] the same way as any other immigrant has to do it ... You have to apply for legal permanent residence, be it family-based or employment-based. You shouldn't be treated worse than the people doing it the right way, but I think it would be unconscionable for us to treat them better than the people who are doing it the right way. — Raul Labrador

When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth? — Brady Quinn

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful. — George R R Martin

When the sun riseth first, the beams over-gild the tops of green mountains that look toward the east, and the world cannot hinder the sun to rise: some are so near heaven, that the everlasting Sun hath begun to make an everlasting day of glory on them; the rays that come from his face that sits on the throne, so over-goldeth the soul, that there is no possibility of clouding peace, or of hindering daylight in the souls of such. — Samuel Rutherford

Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well. — Henry Adams

Explore, experiment and evolve your beautiful world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You may think that you know nothing, yet all wisdom is yours.
Unlearn what your mind accepted as the only way.
Remember what you have forgotten.
Receive what you desire, and know that you receive what you focus on through your feelings.
Desire nothing but wisdom, and your path will lead you straight on. — Raphael Zernoff

Every time he spoke, in fact, he had the appearance of thinly addressing an audience, raising and lowering his head as though from notes, and speaking in a penetrating singsong towards a point over his listeners' heads. You would have diagnosed a Physics B.Sc. with Socialist platform tendencies, and you would have been right. — John Dickson Carr

Victory tastes sweetest in the absence of haunting memories, Bult. Savor it. — Steven Erikson

That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write. — Justin Cronin