Nordvest Spitsbergen Quotes

#1. Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.

Blake Lewis

#2. Who's that?" Yngve said, nodding discreetly in the direction of a woman. She wore a hat with a veil that concealed her face. "No idea," I said. "But all self-respecting funerals have a woman no one recognizes." We laughed. "Well, the danger's over now," Yngve said, and we both laughed again.

Knausgaard, Karl Ove

#3. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

William Least Heat-Moon

#5. A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

Nizar Qabbani

#6. Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.

Horace Walpole

#7. Well, to put it delicately, she has the power to suck out people's brains.

Derek Landy

#8. ... who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy, ...

Allen Ginsberg

#9. Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

Sherry Argov

#10. Speak but one word to me.

William Morris

#11. We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

Sheri Dew