Urbanska Quotes & Sayings

Dancer, Darrow is like a stallion, one of the old stallions of Earth. Beautiful beasts that will run as hard as you push them. They will run. And run. And run. Until they don't. Until their hearts explode. — Pierce Brown

I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar. — Chester Brown

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. — Robert James Waller

The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population,
pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our planet
grows smaller every day and the need for thoughtful, lower-impact housing becomes more urgent. This delightful book is full of inspiring ideas that will help you simplify your housing choices, make more environmentally responsible product and material choices and bring down the square footage of your next home. Or maybe you'll decide to take your current home and turn it into several. You won't be disappointed. — Wanda Urbanska

When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while ... — Robert Jordan

Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat. — Nancy Kress

We had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond. — Miranda July

Physics is simple, but subtle. — Paul Ehrenfest

You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented. — Jim Butcher

The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.' — Lyndon B. Johnson

Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love. — Gautama Buddha

Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships. — Wanda Urbanska

Gabriel thought maps should be banned. They gave the world an order and reasonableness which it did not possess.
'An Ice-cream War — William Boyd

Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it. — Wanda Urbanska

If you do not know your purpose, you have detective work to do. The clues will be in your life to date, in the things you are good at, the things you enjoy doing, in your dreams and your daydreams. — Bill Harvey