Victoria Knut Hamsun Quotes & Sayings

I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world. — Kelly Masterson

You have special abilities," she goes on. "I don't mean you are a witch or a fox spirit. And you've never seemed drawn to the special gift of healing or magic. Rather, you are like A-ma Mata, who gave birth to the Akha people, who pushed against her restraints, who said, 'No, I will not accept my bad fate,' and who endured against all odds with her intelligence, compassion, and perseverance. All that comes from this grove. And the mother tree." A-ma — Lisa See

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sometimes, I wish you were on a diet. Not because you need it, but because I want to eat your food. — Asura

So that you remember that you kissed my hand, but I didn't kiss yours. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. — Dean Acheson

What are you doing, Alys?" He'd turned to watch her, and his expression was disbelieving.
She'd emerged from the winding staircase to stand in the open, but she hadn't yet been able to make her feet move further. "Facing my fears," she said in a wobbly voice.
"Courting death?"
"Are you going to kill me?"
"The lightning might."
"Are you you going to kill me?" she persisted, flinching when the thunder rumbled again.
"Would you ride a horse for me?" he countered.
"Yes."
"Would you walk across this parapet to come to me?"
"Yes." And shes started forward, shivering as the rain lashed down around them.
She halted just out of reach, lifting her head and throwing back her shoulders with quiet determination.
"Would you come to me?" she asked him.
"Yes," he said. And he crossed the last few feet of the parapet and pulled her into his arms, kissing her mouth. — Anne Stuart

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child. — Eglantyne Jebb

Death is not the way they show it in the movies, with the dying person holding on just long enough for one last embrace, some final words of love or absolution. — Bethany Chase

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn't man or God. It's something ... in the brain. — Stephen King

It's great to have people come out. I do worry, though. They know me very intimately, in a way, if they listen to my show; they know a lot about me. — Marc Maron

I want to retain my own identity. Therefore the thing I'm most anxious to avoid is any kind of work that can be considered 'interesting' in its own right. I want something that can't possibly touch me. I want some big, swollen corporation that's been bumbling along making money in its sleep for a hundred years, where they have to hire eight guys for every one job because none of them can be expected to care about whatever boring thing it is that they are supposed to be doing. I want to go into that kind of place and say, Look. You can have my body and my nice college-boy smile for so many hours a day, in exchange for so many dollars, and beyond that we'll leave each other strictly alone. — Richard Yates

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. — Ariel Pink

He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth. — John Ray

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. — Frank Auerbach