Wharfside Quotes & Sayings

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. — Dejan Stojanovic

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize. — Mark Twain

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
[Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.] — Horace

There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live. — Truman Capote

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it. — Nella Larsen

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed? — Marina And The Diamonds

His smell - the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk - wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath being tainted by the stench of dying cells. The smell of him seemed to coat my abused insides with peace, and flow down into the middle of my body to spread through my veins. I filled my lungs again. While I could, before what was undoubtedly a hallucination vanished. — Lilith Saintcrow

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

Why didn't you go with your parents?" I shouted at Michael.
"Because I knew they were all right!" he shouted back, fixing his eyes on me. "I wasn't so sure about you! I couldn't call on you after your arrest. All I could do was vouch for you."
I blinked. "You vouched for me?" New Victorians charged with crimes could get out of paying bail or remaining imprisoned if they had someone powerful and aristocratic enough to speak on their behalf.
"Yes! Didn't you parents tell you? I met them at the courthouse the day your counsel summoned them."
I shook my head, and committed a note to memory: If parents survive, kill them. — Lia Habel

To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses. — Mary Baker Eddy

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant? — Rickey Henderson

We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with — Fyodor Dostoyevsky