Xenosmilus Quotes & Sayings

The journey not the arrival matters. — T. S. Eliot

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history. — Vincent Bugliosi

You know you grow old, when you start choosing your drink depending on its next morning after effects — Nik Krasno

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am. — Scott Weiland

How happy I will be if I keep my heart free from attachment to anyone, and chained to Jesus, my God, alone ... I will devote all my efforts to this end ... I will go before the Blessed Sacrament, and there sign these resolutions with my blood. — Peter Julian Eymard

I hadn't taken to the colonel, yet he had piqued my interest. You can be fascinated even by a tree frog if you watch it long enough. I was savoring the first drops of the poison that would carry us all to perdition. — Umberto Eco

I do like reality TV. I've always liked 'Survivor' since season 1. — Heather Doerksen

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly. — Jupiter Hammon

In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil. — Antonio Porchia

Each action taken in this world has its echo in the heart. — Gelsey Kirkland

Every lawful trade may be sanctified by the gospel to noblest ends. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Pity the poor screenwriter, for he cannot be a poet. He cannot use metaphor and simile, assonance and alliteration, rhythm and rhyme, synecdoche and metonymy, hyperbole and meiosis, the grand tropes. Instead, his work must contain all the substance of literature but not be literary. A literary work is finished and complete within itself. A screenplay waits for the camera. If not literature, what then is the screenwriter's ambition? To describe in such a way that as a reader turns pages, a film flows through the imagination. — Robert McKee

In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the gray area; being okay with where you are. If you can find the parity between 'Where am I going?' and 'What's my purpose?' you've got two pretty solid pillars for your coffee table. — Chris Pine

It crouches like a spider, waiting for us ti get close enough, pretending to be inanimate. — Kendare Blake

History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks. — Stieg Larsson