Backburner Borderlands Quotes

#1. The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

Italo Calvino

#2. Dreams on waking were like empty cocoons of moths or the split-open husks of milkweed pods, dead shells where life had briefly swirled in furious but fragile storm-systems.

Stephen King

#3. Well, death might take lives, but it doesn't take memories.

M.J. Abraham

#4. The body may be sick. But the spirit is strong.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

Andrew Cuomo

#6. The gods love to laugh at a happy man, however.

Joe Abercrombie

#7. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

Francois Fenelon

#8. Rich people don't work for money, they are doing what they like to do; they devote themselves to a job they love and do not live waiting for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but work passionately until the end of their lives

Sunday Adelaja

#9. If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

Frank Stallone