218 Gifts Quotes

#1. If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

K.J. Parker

#2. If none of us ever fell short, or put a foot astray, everything would be good in this great world, but we stumble and fall, every one. We must deal with what we have. - Cadfael, Pg. 245-6

Ellis Peters

#3. I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots.

Emma Donoghue

#4. I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.

Damon Hill

#5. I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

Lance Conrad

#6. Whoa. That sounds, well ... crazy. Crazy: the new normal. I guess I could call myself crazy, since there is one other person I can compare myself to: me.

Rick Yancey

#7. And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as blood that throbs, and as gesture that rises up out of the depths of time.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze.

Jennifer Birkett

#9. you are ever
the only one

i want to give
all the peaches
in my heart to

the only one
by whom
i want them bruised.

Sanober Khan

#10. I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.

Gerhard Richter