327 quotes found
“I've seen so much and lived it all.I wanted to bite the earth and taste it. It is both bitter and sweet, and if I had my time to live over again, I wouldnt change a damn thing Reg Spiers”
“This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography.”
“The world can accommodate your situation, as it accommodates all situations. And your body will keep explaining to you how it all works, this original experiment, this lifelong gift. Your body will...”
“I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. Im fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of Worlds worst writers. The list couldnt get any shorter, because Im the only...”
“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a though...”
“The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this m...”
“Who makes things up? Who tells the real story? We all turn our lives into stories. It is a defining characteristic of our species. We retell our experiences. We quickly learn what parts are interes...”
“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich with mountain culture, didn't provide what I neededthe promise of adve...”
“There is no history of anything happening until it does.And then there is.”
“A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.”
“I was born with my eyes turned inward.”
“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”
“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”
“Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!”
“The clown was an evil one. Theyre either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.”
“I want to sling a stone, a small rock into a pool, see it ripple. I want to shake a tree, create a small storm..”
“The landscape is bathed in the honeyed light of morning. Sometimes the memory of winter comes again. And my days are colored reveries of you, my nights sensuous”
“His lone withdrawing figure blended anonymously with the darkness, Dr Raven's quick, light steps becoming gradually distant, drowned out by the clicking staccato rush of trains, the steady drip of ...”
“Writing is...creating tattoos which are invisible, under your skin”
“She hands me an ornament of The Virgin Mary. "Pray to the Holy Mary, Mother of God!" I notice she has a gold chain round her neck. It has the holy cross and a shamrock”
