Usefularii Quotes & Sayings

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes. — Fernando Pessoa

I've done a lot of video games and stuff, and I'm getting better and better at it. I don't have a prejudice about it being a different medium. — Lance Henriksen

They say that people come into our lives for a lifetime, a season or a reason. — Jeanie Seward-Magee

A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site - stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct. — Jane Smiley

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you. — Jon Huertas

All of them at length succeeded in getting up the ship's side, where they clung dripping with the brine and glowing from the bath, their jet-black tresses streaming over their shoulders, and half enveloping their otherwise naked forms. There they hung, sparkling with savage vivacity, laughing gaily at one another, and chattering away with infinite glee. — Herman Melville

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation. — Angel Olsen

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new. — Walter Annenberg

GINGER: The hand that rocks the craddle rules the world.
BONGI: That's a slick little maxim - while the hand's rocking the craddle it won't be rocking the boat. — Valerie Solanas

Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.
No, but it's very sweet of you. — Christopher Paolini

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas. — Charles Dickens