313 quotes found
“A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.”
“Mrs. French's cat is missing. The signs are posted all over town. "Have you seen Honey?" We've all seen the posters, but nobody has seen Honey the cat. Nobody. Until last Thursday morning, when Mis...”
“The mosquitos are so big they eat you alive wear your shoes.”
“The love of money can do wicked things to one's soul.”
“I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined.”
“I couldnt very well make a special delivery to the door of the constabulary now could I? And hed have made the perfect scapegoat. That aura of misery he wraps himself in. So Byronesque. Hes too imm...”
“She shoved her hands in the deep silk-lined pocketswhere she felt the cold steel of a revolver.”
“From Chapter 1:The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I ejected from the MP Corps, vowing I'd never do police or criminal investigative work again. ...”
“He walked away. It was a shame really, but what could I do? He was the law; I broke the law, two things one should never combine.From WIP The Trinity Saints”
“Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”
“I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden".”
“We have come from all the countries of the world and are going to Saintes-Maries de la Mer. Nomads of the enigma, we gather there each year after having carried our mystery through ordinary country...”
“Nice sweater Bob, does it come in mens?”
“Listen to me," Audra said. "Listen good. You don't get to touch me anymore. Not ever. You don't own me, or my children. We are not your possessions. You never really loved our children, but I do. N...”
“Margaret took Patrick's hand in hers. "Now you two," she said, "isn't it time you gave me another grandchild? We can't have Sean growing up an only child, like Patrick."Patrick blushed and smiled a...”
“Oh, the mystery when two souls become one united in love and sealed by an amazing God can not be seen or understood by the word of love for it is only seen in the action of love from above kissed w...”
“Before he turned again the to the car his eye was caught by a small clump of unknown flowers. The pale pinkish white heads rose from a mossy pad on top of the wall and trembled delicately in the li...”
“Its all very well to have your eight suspects parading in their endless ring-around-the-rosebush outside the library. Thats fine. But give some sensible reason why they were there. If you must show...”
“You must push through the negativity and self-criticism that dam up your creativity and just let it flow. Be your authentic self. Write or sing or dance or paint with your whole being, without guar...”
“A secret's only a secret as long as you keep it. Once you tell someone it loses all its power -- for good or ill -- like that, it's just another piece of information. But a real mystery can't be so...”
