Zeffiro Quotes & Sayings

Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive. — David Niven

Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed ... — Kage Baker

She had never paid much attention to the heart beating in her own chest. As she watched the pattern traced by Korsak's, she became aware of her own pulse. She had always taken her heartbeat for granted, and she wondered what it would be like, to hang on every beat, fearful that the next might not come. That the throb of life in her chest would suddenly go still. — Tess Gerritsen

Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking. — Warren Ellis

I randomly took an acting class in undergrad and was reading a monologue from 'Lemon Sky' by Lanford Wilson, and I felt such a connection to the material and then to the audience as I was doing it. This electric current ran through the author, me and the audience, and I felt connected in a way that rarely happens. I was hooked. — Conrad Ricamora

The Don looked around his cell, including the naked 30 year-old woman sprawled in his bed and steaming bowl of Mussels Marinara sitting in front of him. He was always famished after sex and couldn't envision a life on the outside that would limit all of the things he loved to do. In a way, being on the outside would be like going to jail for Don Vito. — Phil Wohl

There's gotta be a way out of this dungeon.- G. Gygax — Robert Asprin

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. — Nelson Mandela

In the work of a writer of genius, we rediscover our own neglected thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things. — Bob Proctor

I thought of how much they all wanted to be free; how they went mad wanting their freedom; I began to wonder whether it was I that was mad because I was happy to be bound; whether I was alone in knowing that I could not live without the clamour of the voices within me. — Amitav Ghosh

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible. — Anson Mount