Znmetals Quotes & Sayings

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published. — Elena Ferrante

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform. — Brad Schneider

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space? — Valentina Tereshkova

Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind. — Dannika Dark

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again. — Susan Sontag

If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film rights are sold to almost every novel, but it shouldn't be the lead story in your first engagement with the press. Then you end up getting reviews like "a novel made for the screen" and things like that. — William Monahan

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave — Pablo Neruda

Philosophically, Romanticism is a crusade to glorify man's existence; psychologically, it is experienced simply as the desire to make life interesting. — Ayn Rand

The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities. — Rick Perlstein

This would be so much easier if [Allie] hadn't killed the jeep."
"For the last time," I growled at [Jackal]. "I just pointed out the street that wasn't blocked off. I didn't leave those nails on the road for you to drive over. — Julie Kagawa

I beamed widely at the reporters, my fangs - all natural of course - flashing as I let them drop from my gums. "Now, as I was saying, I am a vampire, and not just any vampire. I am the Queen's general, her most loyal servant and spokesperson." And next in line for the throne if someone actually manages to get past her safeguards and kill her. — Eve Langlais

A customer, not a regular who would have known better, had complained about the head on his beer. When Featherlight, purple-faced and twitching, had asked what was wrong with having a head on beer, the customer had retorted, not unreasonably, that everything was wrong when the head had once belonged to a mouse. — Wilkie Martin

He could always go back to be a shepherd, but he had a dream. That's doesn't happen to just anyone. — Paulo Coelho