Volsk Oko Quotes & Sayings

If warming were held to a minimum, the team estimated that between 22 and 31 percent of the species would be "committed to extinction" by 2050. If warming were to reach what was at that point considered a likely maximum - a figure that now looks too low - by the middle of this century, between 38 and 52 percent of the species would be fated to disappear. — Elizabeth Kolbert

M'sieur, I am as a slave to my wife." He kissed the tips of his fingers. "I am as the dirt beneath her feet." He clasped his hands. "I must bestow on her all that she desires, or die!"
"Pray make use of my sword, " invited his Grace. "It is in the corner behind you. — Georgette Heyer

Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today. — Bob Hastings

Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command. — Tacitus

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel? — Randall Jarrell

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. — Henry David Thoreau

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered. — Adrian McKinty

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves. — A.S.J. Tessimond

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it. — Jamie Foxx

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films. — Megan Fox

Its dead eyes were fixed on me and I'm sure it had no trouble locating me by sound, because I was hollering incoherently in an attempt to die angry at maximum volume. — Kevin Hearne

For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. — Michael Douglas

and two cats. He teaches medieval fighting techniques to members of the armed forces. The Mongoliad is his first published fiction. Erik Bear lives and writes in Seattle, Washington. He has written for a bestselling video game and is currently working on several comic book series. Cooper Moo spent five minutes — Neal Stephenson