Weirdly Meaningful Gifts Quotes & Sayings

Troutie, my bonnie little fellow, am not I the most beautiful woman in all the world? — Kenneth MacLeod

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world. — Anne Lamott

He put the sliced celery and mushrooms into the frying pan. Turning the gas flame up to high and lightly jogging the pan, he carefully stirred the contents with a bamboo spatula, adding a sprinkle of salt and pepper. When the vegetables were just beginning to cook, he tossed the drained shrimp into the pan. After adding another dose of salt and pepper to the whole thing, he poured in a small glass of sake. Then a dash of soy sauce and finally a scattering of Chinese parsley. — Haruki Murakami

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. — Felicity Kendal

Yes, death by away team. Very effective on this ship, Jenkins said. — John Scalzi

To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing. — Rajneesh

Love means never to have to say, "That hooker meant nothing to me" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy — E.J. Eisman

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light. — Joyce Carol Oates

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. — Victor Hugo

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas. — Taryn Manning