Wondersmith Quotes & Sayings

This wine is grand. This poison is grand. It is fine to have good wine to drink, and good poison to kill with, is it not?
("The Wondersmith") — Fitz-James O'Brien

Brandy, which is fallen and accursed wine, as devils are fallen and accursed angels ...
("The Wondersmith") — Fitz-James O'Brien

I'm going to take my talents to South Beach. — LeBron James

Golosh Street is an interesting locality. All the oddities of trade seemed to have found their way thither and made an eccentric mercantile settlement. There is a bird-shop at one corner. Immediately opposite is an establishment where they sell nothing but ornaments made out of the tinted leaves of autumn, varnished and gummed into various forms. Further down is a second-hand book-stall. There is a small chink between two ordinary-sized houses, in which a little Frenchman makes and sells artificial eyes, specimens of which, ranged on a black velvet cushion, stare at you unwinkingly through the window as you pass, until you shudder and hurry on, thinking how awful the world would be if everyone went about without eyelids. Madame Filomel, the fortune-teller, lives at No. 12 Golosh Street, second storey front, pull the bell on the left-hand side. Next door to Madame is the shop of Herr Hippe, commonly called the Wondersmith.
("The Wondersmith") — Fitz-James O'Brien

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself. — Ruben Studdard

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view ... and things that informed me. — Nanci Griffith

Every seed carries in itself the ability for multiplication. — Sunday Adelaja

you were a dragon long before
he came around and said
you could fly

you will remain a dragon
long after he's left — Rupi Kaur

The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't go to school for that, but if you're going to be there anyway, then that's the most important thing to get accomplished. That is the true education: accept no substitutes. The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity. If that's what people had you do, then you were robbed. And if you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you were at the beginning - the same beliefs, the same values, the same desires, the same goals for the same reasons - then you did it wrong. Go back and do it again. — William Deresiewicz

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer. — Tony Greig