Knopeswanson Quotes

#1. Meanwhile Crumb Street, never a place of beauty, that afternoon was at its worst. The fog slopped over its low houses like a bucketful of cold soup over a row of dirty stoves. The

Margery Allingham

#2. Most men will not ignore the present world that they can see in order to make the world they cannot see the object of their desires. Therefore, there is an
immediate friendship between this world and a man's fleshly desires and a corresponding distance between carnal man and eternal things.

John Bunyan

#3. I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#4. It can be really weird to say, 'Hey man, let's make a record and start with this horrible zither sound.' But I was obsessed with the idea of taking a sound and completely phenomenologically thrashing it.

Daniel Lopatin

#5. We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

Victor Hugo

#7. All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

Dan Simmons

#8. No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don't create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance!

Eric Ludy

#9. [Thomas said] "I have my cell phone on me. Try to call before things start exploding."
"Maybe this time it'll be different. Maybe I'll work everything out through reason, diplomacy, dialogue, and mutual cooperation."
Thomas eyed me.
I tried to look wounded. "It could happen.

Jim Butcher

#10. Angels are amongst us Angels all around If we quiet our minds, and open our hearts We will hear their heavenly sound"

- Maria Schembri

Susanna Mahoney

#11. Nature is Satan's church.

Lars Von Trier

#12. The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling