Afrasiyah Quotes

#1. The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

Bill Vaughan

#2. A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.

Brassai

#4. A gurgling chuckle came from behind him; Jonas had heard it often enough to know that it signified something as close to laughter as the creature ever got. Yet you believe those things won't come if you serve your Lord? You know what they say about the road to Hell, Judas.

Kaine Andrews

#5. (in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you have even forgotten you have read, is still a book you have read)

Pierre Bayard

#6. I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

Anthony Marra

#7. If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

Linus Pauling

#8. The facts of life are simple and trivial. Only our imagination gives life to them. It makes the laundry pole of facts a flagstaff of dreams.

Erich Maria Remarque

#9. You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. ...we're always acting, one way or another. It's just that for most of us, it's tiring. At the end of the day, we want to go home and relax with someone who doesn't need us to be anyone other than who we are.

Kyell Gold

#11. The creation of this world is the most stupendous of all miracles;

Anonymous

#12. To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

William Safire