Quotes About Quote

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

And tonight—Geryon? You okay? Yes fine, I'm listening. Tonight—? Why do you have your jacket over your head? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Can't hear you Geryon. The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out. I said sometimes I need a little privacy.

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?' asks a dog in a novel I read once (Virginia Woolf Flush 87). I wonder what the smell of nothing is. Smell of autopsy.

I only feel clean he says suddenly when I wake up with you. The seduction of force is from below.

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

And this would be fine if he lived in any other town, but in Dublin every fool had a novel on the go, so he was, as Hughie Snell liked to endlessly repeat, 'a eunuch in the great harem of Irish literature'.

I didn't say any of this to my sister. How I saw her being broken into mediocrity and motherhood; her body broken and then her mind - or did her mind go first, it's sort of hard to disentangle - and then for her to turn around and say Broken is Best, I didn't say how that made me furious beyond measure.

Chelyabinsk was at the center of the war effort.

that the Orthodox Church must be the country's unifying force,

But we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:23

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 2 PETER 1:3

there just could not be that many incestuous fathers and uncles walking the streets of Vienna.

The duke's eyes were dark, but there was a glaze there. Pride in his dark son.

You are wickedly droll, Lord Downing. However do you survive with such wit at your disposal?" He smiled. "It is most troublesome.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

Even the arch-British diplomat Harold Nicolson joined in, insisting it was not that the Europeans 'were anti-American, just that they were frightened that the destinies of the world should be in the hands of a giant with the limbs of an undergraduate, the emotions of a spinster and the brain of a pea hen'.

It's not a gift, but restitution, not charity but justice,' she wrote.

The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.

I don't care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.