Porphyrius The Charioteer Quotes

#1. Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance.

Georges Bataille

#2. Raised a finger, pointing out a door. Wax gave her a nod and crouched

Brandon Sanderson

#3. In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal ... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

Goodluck Jonathan

#4. She was a soul-sucking vampire and I was a sixteen-year-old cheerleader, but I was damned if she was going to suck the life out of all my friends. High school was hard enough.

Marlene Perez

#5. Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

Frida Kahlo

#6. Body scan meditation is mentally scanning through each part of the body with presence. It helps us be one with the body. Thus, we can feel if we are holding on to any tension or heaviness or any static emotions. And by doing so, we can find relief and internal freedom.

Christopher Dines

#7. CHAPTER XX. THE MINISTER IN A MAZE CHAPTER XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY CHAPTER XXII. THE PROCESSION CHAPTER XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

Alexander Chee

#9. Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

George Saunders

#10. I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

Smokey Robinson

#11. She absorbed too much of the world around her and it affected her. That wasn't something she could change, could she?

Maya Banks