Makato And The Cowrie Shell Quotes

#1. One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

Anne Lamott

#2. There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

Robert Plant

#3. Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike ... If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

#5. Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

Iain Banks

#6. Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

#7. In Dreams ... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

Neil Jordan

#8. There are people that I believe shouldn't like me, and if they did, I'd be sad.
~ Jon Stewart

Chris Smith

#9. I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

Natalia Vodianova

#10. Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

Albert J. Nock

#11. Okay, basics. The three S's: shower, shit, and shave - every man could do that in his sleep. So he did. He managed his complete morning routine in a mental and emotional coma.

Amy Lane