Wyrmen Quotes & Sayings

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. — Raymond Chandler

Teafortwo was a wyrman. Barrel-chested creatures like squat birds, with thick arms like a human dwarf's below those ugly, functional wings, the wyrmen ploughed the skies of New Crobuzon. Their hands were their feet, those arms jutting from the bottom of their squat bodies like crows' legs. They could pace a few clumsy steps here and there balancing on their palms, if they were indoors, but they preferred to careen over the city, yelling and swooping and screaming abuse at passers-by. The wyrmen were more intelligent than dogs or apes, but decidedly less than humans. They thrived on an intellectual diet of scatology and slapstick and mimicry, picking names for each other gleaned without understanding from popular songs and furniture catalogues and discarded textbooks they could just about read. Teafortwo's sister, Isaac knew, was called Bottletop; one of his sons Scabies. — China Mieville

I have learned to be happy by calming my ego. — Debasish Mridha

All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see? — Gertrude Bell

The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of the usual conditions of their lives. That's when the truth of who they are is revealed ... — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him. — Dwight L. Moody

The young men of Camp Wannamorra look out for themselves. Isn't that right, boys?" "Yes, sir!" a bunch of the campers yelled back. This time, I noticed — James Patterson

If you want to aspire to be any pitcher in the game right now, it's probably Madison Bumgarner. I really keep a close eye on what he's doing, his preparation, his routine, how he goes about his bullpens and in between so I can incorporate that stuff into my game. — Tyler Beede

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. — Leslie Jamison

What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant. — Su Shi

Blood and wine are interchangeable.
Love and hate are unrecognizable.
Sanity is no longer with me. — A.P. Sweet

It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction. — Ben E. King

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb. — Confucius