Vauntingly Quotes & Sayings

I was able to take that first step to freedom. — Catherine Jane Fisher

Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger — Janet Fitch

A chill crept over Duiker. Even wheeled hospitals carried with them that pervasive atmosphere of fear, the sounds of defiance and the silence of surrender. Mortality's many comforting layers had been stripped away, revealing wracked bones, a sudden comprehension of death that throbbed like an exposed nerve. — Steven Erikson

But in their defense of the supernatural, fundamentalists and their evangelical heirs resemble some cancer patients. In facing a drastic disease, they are willing to undertake a drastic remedy. The treatment of fundamentalism may be said to have succeeded; the patient survived. But at least for the life of the mind, what survived was a patient horribly disfigured by the cure itself. — Mark A. Noll

I was 9 years old when I had my first glimpse of wholeness. It was early Christmas morning and I was standing in my pajamas in the living room and looked out of the large windows. Outside the white snow flakes silently singled down toward a snowclad landscape. Suddenly I was filled with a feeling of being one with the slowly dancing snowflakes, one with the silent landscape.
I did not understand then that this was my first taste of meditation, but it created a deep thirst and a longing in my heart to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole. — Swami Dhyan Giten

He'd never realized that, deep down inside, what he really wanted to do was make things go splat. — Terry Pratchett

A couple of nights ago I had an erotic dream about Edward Norton. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making. — John Le Carre

Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms - that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man - but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide. — James Shapiro

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth. — George Russell

It's one of those things when you are in a role you have to do what they ask you to do. If they want me to come in and stick it in, I have to come in and stick it in. — Jerome Bettis

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book. — R.L. Stine

Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle. — Gautama Buddha

Abortion is murder in the womb ... A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me. — Mother Teresa