Windage And Elevation Quotes & Sayings

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that. — Leigh Bardugo

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines. — Nicholas Negroponte

The moment we decide things don't have to be a certain way, we create the possibility that they could be better than we know to imagine them. — Lori Deschene

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill. — Charles Caleb Colton

Far from erupting all over them, clinging like Greek fire for a moment, then leaping away to safety, Sir Mordred sized up his prey in the leisurely manner of a much older cat, taking all the time necessary to unsheathe his claws, blow on them, adjust for windage and elevation, and finally reach out to draw them daintily down Nicholas' left leg from calf to ankle, like a bear marking a tree. And he looked upon his work, saw that it was good - four neat slits in the red hose, and scratched skin showing through - and he sat back, deeply content, and said, "Rao. — Peter S. Beagle

Agression is a trait common to men and new gods. — Emil Cioran

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody. — Natasha Lyonne