Coiling Dragon Quotes

#1. Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

Margaret Atwood

#2. But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

Markus Zusak

#3. I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

Walter Hagen

#4. When we get home, I'll make you some soup or something."
"God. Don't be nice."
"All right." Jeff spoke softly into the darkness. "When we get home, I'll make some soup, and when you're not looking, I'll spit in it.

Z.A. Maxfield

#5. I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.

Bonnie Langford

#6. Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

Damon Galgut

#8. Your brain is not your friend when you need to apologize. Your brain and your ego and your intellect all remind you of the facts.

Amy Poehler

#9. Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

Joey Comeau

#10. Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

Jane Austen

#11. The wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes.

Anonymous

#12. Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person ... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.

Carine Roitfeld

#13. Irrationality is the square root of all evil

Douglas Hofstadter