Absurdities Worksheets Quotes

#1. Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. Only the vanquished remember history.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something.

Jay Bell

#4. The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.

Alexander MacLaren

#5. I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I wrote. I was fascinated by the Eddas, the Norse and Icelandic legends, Odin on the world tree.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#6. I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.

Maika Monroe

#7. My parents were really nice to me.

Bryan Callen

#8. She moved through formal receptions, theater parties, dinners, dances - gracious and smiling, a smile that made her face brighter and colder, like the sun on a winter day.

Ayn Rand

#9. He always had a different girlfriend and you could tell they were all easy but a nun would turn easy at one look at Luke.

Kristen Ashley

#10. My lady, it is the lady empress Sextilia Augusta, mother to - ' 'She knows to whom I am mother. The entire world knows to whom I am mother. The entire world shares my shame.' The empress's voice was sharp

M.C. Scott

#11. The Maoris, New Zealand's first Sapiens colonisers, reached the islands about 800 years ago. Within a couple of centuries, the majority of the local megafauna was extinct, along with 60 per cent of all bird species.

Yuval Noah Harari