Zantaraia Quotes & Sayings

I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires. — Michael Ashcroft

He was born in grief, my queen, and that shadow hung over him all his days. — George R R Martin

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors. — James Frain

I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.' — Haywood Nelson

Muhammad Ali has a lot to answer for. When he lit the flame at the Atlanta Olympics there wasn't a dry eye on the planet. Why were we crying? Because a great sportsman had been reduced to this-a shuffling, mumbling, twitching cripple. A man who once danced like a butterfly now shook like blancmange.
We always remember sportsmen. When the body deserts a scientist like Stephan Hawking we figure that he'll be able to live in his mind, but a crippled athlete is like a bird with a broken wing. When you soar the heights the landing is harder. — Michael Robotham

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry. — John Hegley

The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing against, in the poet Richard Wilbur's phrase, 'loving things for reasons'. You find beauty and hope in the existence, rather than the achievements, of such a child. Most parenthood entails some struggle to change, educate and improve one's children; people with multiple severe disabilities may not become anything else, and there is a compelling purity in parental engagement not with what might or should or will be, but with, simply, what is. — Andrew Solomon

The pink rose Zayvion had given me looked a little worse for the wear, but it wasn't dead yet. Tough flowers, roses. — Devon Monk