Demesne Quotes

#1. If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

Nick Offerman

#2. Mystery, why so attractive to me?
You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward. Wary and trembling, I follow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do

Sue Klebold

#4. Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#5. A disorienting change pleases no one yet it builds self made heroes.

Auliq Ice

#6. I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

Bear Grylls

#7. Some thirty inches from my nose
The frontier of my Person goes,
And all the untilled air between
Is private pagus or demesne.
Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes
I beckon you to fraternize,
Beware of rudely crossing it:
I have no gun, but I can spit.

W. H. Auden

#8. Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

Fred L. Turner

#10. I find it very easy to love because I grew up in such a loving family.

Donna Air

#11. He took [the book] up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffably tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.

Edith Wharton

#12. Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.

Thomas Love Peacock

#13. My heart is hidden inside poetry's demesne.

Delano Johnson

#14. She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people.

Robin McKinley

#15. Aaaand, that's assault and battery, Pia muttered.
Did officials in another country have the legal authority to throw the head of an Elder demesne in jail?

Thea Harrison

#16. The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.

Rachel Cohn

#17. Can I be of assistance?" Saiman asked.
"Have you ever delivered a child?" Doolittle asked.
"Yes, I have."
"Good. We have to perform a C-section. One of her unborn is trying to kill the other."
"Fascinating," Saiman said. [p.304]

Ilona Andrews

#18. Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

Walter Darby Bannard