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Robert Browning quote: "On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden..."
On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. Robert Browning
Richard Russo quote: "a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as..."
a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect. Richard Russo
You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me. Douglas Adams
Jodi Picoult quote: "There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads..."
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. Jodi Picoult
what a book this is, and what lessons there are in it! What a book is Holy Scripture, what a miracle and what a strength is given to man with it! Like a sculpture composed of the world, of man and human characters, and it has all been named and explained for the ages, ever more. And how many mysteries are resolved and revealed..." (Concerning Holy Scripture in the Life of Fr. Zosima) Fyodor Dostoevsky
Once off the bush. The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair. That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.-Blackberry picking Seamus Heaney
Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down! Emily Bronte
At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings anything but gratification. Charlotte Bronte
Do you think if two people liked the same thing, it could bring them closer together?"Certainly... Take classical music, for instance... Two people who shared a love for Beethoven could become very close..."How about TV? Charles M. Schulz
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game? George R. R. Martin
John Mortimer quote: "Rumpole, you must move with the times."If I don't like the way..."
Rumpole, you must move with the times."If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them. John Mortimer
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do... George R. R. Martin
All in a moment of time he perceived that what was, to human philologists, a merely accidental resemblance of two sounds, was in truth no accident. The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the distinction between fact and myth, was purely terrestrial. C. S. Lewis
I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the book, out of the booth, and coasting on the green crest of the song, to the momentary idea that any point on Earth was mine for the visiting, that I'd lucked out living in the reality I was in. And I also got the feeling I was souring and damaging that luck by enjoying the contentment of pulling the shades on the sun, and shutting out my fellow employees and the world, and folding myself up in the... Patton Oswalt
[Selden] had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at. How alluring the world outside the cage appeared to Lily, as she heard its door clang on her! In reality, as she knew, the door never clanged: it stood always open; but most of the captives were like flies in a bottle, and having once flown in, could never regain their freedom. It was... Edith Wharton

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