Yarnspinner Fanfiction Quotes & Sayings

Homer then has the bard - a blind man whose name is Demodocus, which means "popular with the people" - say something that drives far into the center of what Homer means and why Homer matters: "The gods did this and spun the destruction of people / For the sake of the singing of men hereafter." The song, this poem, this story, is the divine — Adam Nicolson

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day. — Jorge Luis Borges

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. — G.K. Chesterton

The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure. — Matt Blaze

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye. — William Shakespeare

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things. — Stephen Covey

They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered. — Enid Blyton

Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He's given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn't strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree. — Vivek Shanbhag

You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it. — Christopher Bollen