Xoxarle Quotes

#1. I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.
Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. "I don't think any of us do."
"The brave belong where they decide." Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice.

Iain Banks

#2. The desert is hot and boring, I'm sorry but that's pretty much all there is to it. It's also sandy, but rocks are essentially dull things and breaking them up into really small pieces doesn't improve matters.

Mark Lawrence

#3. If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

Thomas Beecham

#4. Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they're not men at all.

Mark Lawrence

#5. Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Willa Cather

#6. An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

Evelle J. Younger

#7. Schoolgirls are not distractions.
They are students.
Teach them something other than misogyny.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#8. Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

Bertrand Russell

#9. Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#10. Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

William Faulkner

#11. After the mines, what is fighting? Fighting is child's play

Tommy Farr

#12. Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

Calvin Coolidge