Paper Crowns Quotes

#1. We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that all our civilisation has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden sceptres.

Frances Hardinge

#2. The dead are so long dead," explained Merlin. "Better to have lived while alive, yes? Besides, if they achieve this, they will have conquered a giant; they will be invincible!

Stephen R. Lawhead

#3. The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

John Locke

#4. When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

Orson Scott Card

#5. I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production.

Roger Ebert

#6. SOUNDS GROSS," he said. "SALAZAR PREFERS WOOD. TAPESTRIES ARE ALSO ACCEPTABLE.

Mirriam Neal

#7. Look down at me and you see a fool,
Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself.

Charles Manson

#8. The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.

Henry A. Kissinger

#9. The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

Frederick Lenz

#10. [Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year ... what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Winston Churchill

#11. If you can't be unafraid, be afraid and happy.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!

Irving Kahn

#13. I forgot to sup
annoyance
from his glass full of
mingled dread and rage
Now let me take
a small draught of solace
from my own little cup
full of predicaments!
From the poem- Draught

Munia Khan

#14. Brynne was naturally submissive to me. She accepted what I wanted to give her - the Dom in me had found my muse, and it was just one more reason we were perfect together.

Raine Miller

#15. For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

Janine Benyus

#16. All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

Ira Sachs

#17. Are you deliberately trying to waste our time," Hal asked in an icy voice, "or are you just being petty?"

"A little of both," said Azrael.

Mirriam Neal

#18. Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at least, Aussies don't really care that much about celebrities or things like that.

Brody Jenner