Vallombrosa Center Quotes & Sayings

At his neck, hanging outside his clothing, Demoux wore a necklace that bore a small silver spear: the increasingly popular symbol of the Church of the Survivor. It seemed odd to her that the weapon that killed Kelsier would become the symbol of his followers. — Brandon Sanderson

Tattered jeans, grimy size-twenty sneakers and a plaid flannel shirt with holes in it. He smelled like a New — Rick Riordan

I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling - it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful. — James Salter

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter. — Daniel J. Boorstin

The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you have the courage to be honest with everyone, including yourself, you may hurt a few people's feelings, but they will forever value your opinion more than your half truths. — Steven Aitchison

The only way out is to write your way out. — Mark Oetjens

God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind. — Marianne Williamson

But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. ("Letter To Stalin") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The thing about little babies is that you're always afraid they are going to die. At least in the beginning. You are constantly checking to make sure they didn't die and you haven't killed them. — Amy Poehler

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid. — Alessandro Nivola

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know. — E.L. James

and I learned a lesson about not judging people until you've found out whether or not they've read Harry Potter. Kyle — Holly Bourne

My wails of sorrow
are tormenting my soul — Jalaluddin Rumi

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful. — Henry Latham Doherty