Windlass Quotes

#1. Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I am I, I am he. We are, but I am I, first I am I, I will defend being I until I am unable to fight any longer. I am I, Atalia. Ego. Yo. A professional degree, an Argentine, a scarlet fingernail, pretty sometimes, big dark eyes, I. Atalia Donosi, I. Yo. Yo-yo, windlass and hawser. Funny.

Julio Cortazar

#3. Your mistakes are to help you develop your purpose, not shame and guilt.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#4. I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.

Malala Yousafzai

#5. When the enemies of Spire Albion were in the walls, the great-great granddaughter of old Admiral Tagwynn had refused to have a good lie-down, and it was as simple and as profound as that.

Jim Butcher

#6. Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#7. It was tough for me at school ... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#8. when cynicism becomes the default language, playfulness and invention become impossible.

Caitlin Moran

#9. When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.

Gayle King

#10. I love you," Journeyman said to the lift crystal. He kissed it and spread his arms across its surface in an embrace. "I love you, you big, beautiful beast. I want you to marry me. I want you to bear my children."
"Chief," Grimm said, reproachfully, but his heart wasn't in it.

Jim Butcher

#11. Predator is not property," Grimm said in a calm, level tone. "She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy the livelihood of my family again, Commodore, I will be inclined to kill you where you stand.

Jim Butcher

#12. I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

John Wilkes Booth

#13. Pain is soul of re-birth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

Joichi Ito