Steampunk Fairy Tales Quotes

#1. What sort of work do you do?"
Lifting her skirts with one hand, still holding the owl in the other, she started for the cottage. "Quickening. Citizens of this spacetime call it clockwork magic."
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Sharon Lynn Fisher

#2. She was so fed up with unrequited love and platonic love and all the other kinds of love that weren't passionate, romantic, can't-live-without-you, I-have-to-have-you-right-now, the-beat-of-your-heart-matches-the-beat-of-mine love.

Sarra Manning

#3. There was only one ambition that anyone on the planet ever had, and that was to leave.

Douglas Adams

#4. The answer's in the question, child.

Sharon Lynn Fisher

#5. I have a heart-shaped hole. Like an empty bird's next, it rests among marigold-hued ruffles above the topmost hook of my corset.
The hole was not left by something removed, but for something anticipated.

Sharon Lynn Fisher

#6. He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.

Stefan Bachmann

#7. Struggles and challenges are ordinary, it's how you deal with them that can make you extraordinary.

Shan Fazelbhoy

#8. Fair is in August.

Bob Cook

#9. He held out the pendant in the palm of his hand.
"Happy birthday, Copper," he whispered.

Sharon Lynn Fisher

#10. My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

Theaster Gates

#11. Whenever I see an opportunity and a chance to change something, I go at it and I lay out all the facts to everybody. And when I come to this space, I'm going to come with talent, I'm going to come with focus. And I'm going to do the job as competitively as the next guy.

Robert Johnson

#12. I liked to tinker with things, like Father. Make things with my hands. I liked to be alone, but not to be lonely. You were my only friend. You and Dutch.

Sharon Lynn Fisher

#13. Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Saskya Pandita

#14. Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

Madame De Stael

#15. Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality ... You can't 'stay the course' because you don't have a course.

Juan Cole

#16. I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Mike Figgis

#17. It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.

Jeff Miller

#18. Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

J.K. Rowling