Weird Themes Quotes & Sayings

The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order - the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished. — Min Jin Lee

Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it loose from morality; writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Nathan Ballingrud are doing the same by prying fantasy away from pedestrian writing, with more vibrant and daring styles, more reflective thinking, and a more widely broadcast spectrum of themes. — Michael Cisco

Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth. — Andrew Young

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em. — Bernie Mac

I took the jar and placed it on my windowsill, leaving it where it should have stayed a long time ago. — Kiera Cass

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother. — Cotton Mather

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art. — Joseph Beuys

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way. — Mel Gibson

I feel like I've been asleep for years and I've only just woken up. — Kim Holden

Is she for real?" He paused and reconsidered. "Are you for real? Spells? Magic? I mean, don't get me wrong. I drink blood and control people's minds. But I've never heard of anything like this. — Richelle Mead

When he wakes he has to learn the lack of her all over again — Hilary Mantel

They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with each other in anything, and that made their argument especially interesting and endless. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor. — James Grant

I had never before seen somebody I admired understand what was expected of him, choose to act otherwise, and be happier for it. For the first time in my life I realized that it was possible to reinvent oneself. — Joel Derfner

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. — Eckhart Tolle

It's hard to transport myself forward in time, and the scarcity of opportunity back then kind of fueled my ambition. But back in my day, every family I knew had a Super 8 camera, and that's what I first picked up. We adapt to the technology we have available. But for the kids of today, they can really make something great with what is available. — Todd Haynes

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge. — Vladimir Potanin