Butyakengo Quotes

#1. Have you had this place inspected?" he asked. "The house is ready to fall off its timbers. I couldn't risk coming in here without offering a quick prayer to Butyakengo."
"Who?"
"A Gypsy protective spirit." He smiled at her. "But now that I'm here, I'll take my chances.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. You never know what somebody might tell you,' Chris said, 'when they think you're somebody else.

Elmore Leonard

#3. Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter;

G.K. Chesterton

#4. There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

Hans Hofmann

#5. I draw him closer by his tie and whisper into his ear, Cricket Bell, I have been in love with you for my entire life.

Stephanie Perkins

#6. A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#7. The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Ron Suskind

#8. It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

Joss Whedon

#9. It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

George Santayana

#10. Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

Munia Khan

#11. In this world, you're either playing the game or you're a pawn on the board.

Courtney Milan

#12. Returning to where
It used to see blossoms,
My mind, changed,
Will stay on at Yoshino ...
Home now, and see anew.

Saigyo

#13. Keep them hungry and they will certainly become realists.

M.F. Moonzajer

#14. You're real, he whispered. I had thought him pale already. Now all vestiges of color drained from his face.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.

Amy Pascal

#16. Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.

Jim Butcher