Emily Palermo Quotes

#1. But I got this far, didn't I?" he said slowly. "They thought I'd die in the attempt, but I'm here ... and you're in my power ... I'm the one with the wand ... you're at my mercy ...

J.K. Rowling

#2. Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake it for the genuine article.

Nathan Poe

#3. I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

Wynn Bullock

#4. And Death, in his shame,
built a kingdom from dust
as penance, as proof,
that his fingers were made
for more than destruction.

Emily Palermo

#5. The platform God has given me is the platform of exhortation.

Johnny Hunt

#6. Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now.

Robin Hobb

#7. In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

Erich Fromm

#8. Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I want to be a mystery to you,
untouchable,
a star all to myself
a galaxy away from your starved fingers.

Emily Palermo

#10. I suppose The Beautiful Woman Who Can Manipulate the World with Her Mind' is too unweildy.

Erin Morgenstern

#11. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

William Cowper

#12. I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Robert Barry

#13. But you see, there is
a graveyard in my mouth
filled with words that
have died on my lips.

Emily Palermo

#14. Every single person I've cared for who did not have a feeding tube and became dehydrated has died more comfortably than every single person I've cared for with a feeding tube that remained in use until their death.

Heidi Telpner

#15. And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire , sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.

Thomas Hobbes

#16. If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.

Tamora Pierce