Whittley Agency Quotes & Sayings

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes. — Fernando Pessoa

You didn't just lose a loved one. You lost your heart, your memories, your laughter, your brain and it even took your bones. Eventually, it all came back, but different. Rearranged. — Louise Penny

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself ... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways. — Gary Larson

That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swallen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts ( ... ) they appeared to have lost those feminine qualities that were so important to us girls ( ... ) They had been consumed by the bodies of husbands, fathers, brothers, whom they ultimately came to resemble, because of their labors or the arrival of old age, of illness. When did that transformation begin? With housework? With pregnancies? With beatings? — Elena Ferrante

I'll always remember 1995 as the year i found out Star Trek wasn't real — Daniel Johns

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices. — Franz Liszt

Magic ran between them like a current, a cord, and he wondered who she would have been if she'd stayed in Grey London. If she'd never picked his pocket, never held the contents ransom for adventure.
Maybe she would never have discovered magic.
Or maybe she would have simply changed her world instead of his. — V.E Schwab

All these mirrors
carnival distortions
of selves we never were. — Basith

It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something ... What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it? — Hans Scholl

There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock. — Angela Carter

It's true: Medium has the best web-based editor I've ever seen. And I've seen them all. — Anil Dash

innocent, as if they perceived only pre-selected facts. — Ross Macdonald

It's kinda all about image. — Bam Margera