Rapier Sword Quotes

#1. People are funny. They look down from all sorts of heights and then if the looking down has no effect they get unsure.

John McGahern

#2. Want to try it?" Dad offered, patting the arm of the chair. "Fifteen different kinds of massage. It analyzes your back muscles and makes recommendations. It also grabs and stretches the thigh and calf muscles."
"No, thanks. I prefer my furniture to keep its hands to itself.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. The more we rely on God, the better our lives will be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy.

David Toop

#6. Now Sally plunged her abruptly into the full strangeness of this place, with its rot and randomness rooting towers taller than any in Tokyo, corporate obelisks that pierced the sooty lacework of overlapping domes.

William Gibson

#7. Of course it was Hamlet - The uncle kills the father, and the son has to avenge his father's death. So then we decided it was going to be Hamlet with lions." In that pivotal moment, the film got the green light.

Adam M. Grant

#8. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

Susanna Clarke

#9. What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him.
"Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

Richelle Mead

#10. Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

Nic Pizzolatto

#11. Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

William J. Clinton

#12. Breaking down does not have to mean reaching a catastrophe.

Valerie Mason-John