Vastly Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

We couldn't understand because we were too far ... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign ... and no memories. — Joseph Conrad

- So you're a masochist.
- I know. But what's life rather than walking barefoot? — Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan

Jews were expelled to Israel, Protestants were expelled to the USA and where should the Muslims go? — Daniel Marques

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic. — Stephenie Meyer

People like to wear blinders, so they don't have to cope with the bad things in life. — Katie Hamstead

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze. — Clare Morgan

Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for. — Brian Reade

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience ... In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them. — Kristin Hannah

Common sense is an earthly prophet. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always. — Alan Bold

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science. — Samuel Johnson