Unrequested Prayers Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book, And the Darkness Rained upon Them, and the next he was dead. A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away. — Derek Landy

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men
Fan even a spark of genius to a flame. — Ovid

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me. — Lionel Hampton

There is nothing permanent in the world except change. — Heraclitus

The road was clogged with limbers and motor vehicles and men marching towards the front. They look like a machine: all the boots moving as one, shoulders bristling with rifles, arms swinging, everything pointing forwards. And on the other side of the road, men stumbling back, trying to keep time, half dead from exhaustion and with this incredible stench hanging over them. You get whiffs of it when you cut the clothes off wounded men, but out there, in the mass, it's as solid as a wall. And they all look so gray, faces twitching, young men who've been turned into old men. It's a great contrast, stark and terrible, because they're the same men, really. It's an irrigation system, full buckets going one way, empty buckets the other. Only it's not water the buckets carry. — Pat Barker

To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion. — Anthony Liccione

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying. — Rebecca De Mornay

When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere. — Ken Follett

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants. — Jose Antonio Vargas

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment. — Darrell Issa