Vennells Quotes & Sayings

After all that hearing, he writes, "I am exposed ... cut by bitter and poisoned hail." That was perfect, I thought: you listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. Walking — John Green

You were an odd little girl."
"You have no idea. What did you and Toyla play with?"
"The skulls of our enemies. — Leigh Bardugo

What?"
"Nothing, it's just ... you've been 'Galinda-fied'. You don't have to do that, you know? — Stephen Schwartz

if you have to ask you'll never know — Tony Salmons

Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted. — Gene Spafford

A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living. — Christopher Buehlman

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. — Ambrose Bierce

And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared. — Michael Chabon

But here they were shedding skins. They could imitate nothing but what they were. There was no defence but to look for the truth in others. — Michael Ondaatje

whether or not you are already there, you will probably agree that a Stage Six default is worthy of your aspirations in just about any area of life. Life is a wonderful occasion. Rising to that occasion means becoming far bigger than your roles. That is the breakthrough to Stage Six. I also see this stage as the major part of a new and apt definition of positive mental health. Stage Six is the first of the two Target Stages. A Default Stage here breaks you out of the pack — Michael S. Broder

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. — Ezra Pound

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail. — Dick Wolf

If God starts it as alfa then he will end it as omega — Ikechukwu Joseph

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions. — James Frey

A temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs. — D.H. Lawrence