Wantha Blogging Quotes & Sayings

They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never opens up and comes out, it can be warped to fit the image others see.
... No, a book wasn't invulnerable to the appearance of its cover, not by any means. — Ken Kesey

At the end of the day, a choice was made and it wasn't ours. So why get all bugabooed about it? — Benjamin R. Smith

Permanent living peace is
permanent living death. — Charles Bukowski

If you'd just told me you wanted her for yourself, I wouldn't have opened my mouth. Asshole."
"He doesn't want me for himself," Melanie said. "He isn't looking for a relationship."
"It doesn't matter if he's looking," Richart grumbled. "He's found one. The two of you can't take your eyes off each other. And in the rare moments you do, you usually touch."
"What?" Bastien said the same time Melanie did.
Was she as appalled that her feelings were so transparent as he was?
"Don't worry." Richart drew out a handkerchief and wiped his crimson lips. "I doubt anyone else has noticed. Bastien is usually too busy pissing them all off."
"He doesn't piss you off?" Melanie asked.
"Other than just now" - Richart glared at Bastien - "no. I've spent enough time in his company that I've become immune to his bullshit. — Dianne Duvall

It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see it, a love so fierce it could swallow itself completely. — Leslie Jamison

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing. — N.D. Wilson

So much of college is girls labeling other girls terrible things when they don't like their behavior, but using concerned language so they have plausible deniability is they get accused of being bitches: That girl is not cheerfully doing what the rest of us are doing, so she is probably 'depressed' or 'has an eating disorder' or 'is weird with guys,' and so on. — Mindy Kaling

There are certain things I don't want to joke about. If it's about somebody else, it's fine. If it's about me, I think it's totally insensitive! — Gilbert Gottfried

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. — Charles Darwin

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored. — Gary Coleman

I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away. — Richard Flanagan

I begin to see my life as a small part of something grander, more elegant: the intertwined nature of the souls of man. — Raoul Wientzen

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. — Edsger Dijkstra

It is a moment, and it is eternity. It is the centre of the universe and it is the universe itself. The eternal light rests on and illuminates the eternal heart of things. — E. Nesbit