Xerxes Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

Strolling down a white-graveled walk to the cliff above the ocean, he let his eyes rove aimlessly over the expanse of sea and sand: The icy-looking whitecaps, the blinking, faraway sails of boats, the sweeping, constantly searching gulls. Desolation. Eternal, infinite. Like Dostoevski's conception of eternity, a fly circling about a privy, the few signs of life only emphasized the loneliness. — Jim Thompson

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away. — Umberto Eco

We had to rebuild him, both mentally and physically, but you don't have to rebuild the heart when it's already there, big as all outdoors. — Laura Hillenbrand

Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles. — M T Anderson

You imagine the worst, and when you do, your mind stops at the problem and does not consider the solution. — Robin Hobb

I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me. — Louis Menand

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices. — Rick Scott