Vardadieniai Quotes & Sayings

Seeing within changes one's outer vision. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Now, remember, if there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them. — Gail Carriger

Mullahs from the TNSM preached that the earthquake was a warning from God. They said it was caused by women's freedom and obscenity. If we did not mend our ways and introduce sharia or Islamic law, they shouted in their thundering voices, more severe punishment would come. — Malala Yousafzai

What is birthday, but a celebration of death. — Aphole

Hugging himself, Oscar leaned against the pantry wall. For two days all he had wanted was for Caleb to come back, and now he was back and Oscar had made a mess of things: he had angered half the customers and confused the other half, and the coin boxes did not look as they should, and [rich, noble] people were complaining about him, and he couldn't look at anybody, and [redacted] was dead, and Oscar was odd.
'What if he doesn't keep me? — Anne Ursu

Within 24 hours of moving into a new place we overwrite it with our own microbes, turning it into a reflection of ourselves. — Ed Yong

I closed the cover and stared at it. How dare she have dreams while making all of us live like this? She was the parent - she could have done something about it. She was the one with the power to make our lives like the people in the notebook, but instead she buried us all under tons of filth and shame. — C.J. Omololu

Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions that will last forever. That's real value. — Nicolas Berggruen

One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it. — Moby

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type. — James Salter

It seemed that angels carried a cherry flavor in their mouths and it was her favorite. — Laurann Dohner

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults — Paul Lemoine

how often do we forget that there is hope as well, and that we seldom think about hope? We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age. We have made ourselves a Welfare State, which has given us freedom from fear, security, our daily bread and a little more than our daily bread; and yet it seems to me that now, in this Welfare State, every year it becomes more difficult for anybody to look forward to the future. Nothing is worth-while. Why? Is it because we no longer have to fight for existence? Is living not even interesting any more? We cannot appreciate the fact of being alive. Perhaps we need the difficulties of space, of new worlds opening up, of a different kind of hardship and agony, of illness and pain, and a wild yearning for survival? Oh — Agatha Christie

-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust. — Barbara Hodgson