Vjenceslav Novak Quotes & Sayings

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens. — Franz Grillparzer

You know you're extremely beautiful, but when you laugh you're just stunning. — Sawyer Bennett

It's far from a pleasant thing to be plotting about a dead man in the room where he died, especially when you happen to live in it." "But we are plotting nothing against him, Tony." "May be not, still I don't like it. Live here by yourself and see how YOU like it." "As to dead men, Tony," proceeds Mr. Guppy, evading this proposal, "there have been dead men in most rooms." "I know there have, but in most rooms you let them alone, and - and they let you alone," Tony answers. The two look — Charles Dickens

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself.. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed. — Tim O'Brien

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head. — Antonio Banderas

To the valiant actions speak alone. — Tobias Smollett

There were people in the world for whom the world and its people were subjects on which to cast spells. — Dave Eggers

Material poverty doesn't cause
murder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does. — Derric Yuh Ndim

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government. — Amy Goodman

Someday," she said in a voice as serene as a high mountain lake, "I'm going to break your neck. Then I'm going to saw it off with a hacksaw so I can take my time." Venom's grin creased his cheeks.
"I knew you had it in you, kitty."
(Venom & Sorrow) — Nalini Singh

She was beautiful, standing there in her petticoat and shawl. She fetched a cup for him and waited while he drank, her poise keeping time at her neck, her feet bare on the earth floor. He imagined her taking him inside the cottage, lying on the bed. Giving her pleasure in the darkness. Spilling things he had seen into her ear. How the beauty of life and the world struck him like a fever sometimes, but how it was all mixed up and mangled with the hate. But he said and did none of those things, only, when he had drunk down the milk, handed the cup back, thanked her, and walked on. — Anna Hope

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered. — Cheryl Strayed

As far as concerns the army, I don't know which people among us can claim to be more disciplined and closer to the order of the Romans than the Turks. — Francesco Sansovino

The chiseled beauty of his features, like an ancient greek coin. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I suffer from ADDAD ... Attention Deficit Doing ANYTHING Disorder!
It's where you set a goal to do certain things, then you start to do one thing, but get distracted by other things, which causes you to bounce around from thing to thing only to end up doing a lot of things with nothing to show for it!! — Tanya Masse