"Torches," Porak ordered. "This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we're coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they're blind."

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Source : Jim C. Hines (2006). “Goblin Quest”, p.11, Penguin

Jim C. Hines

#Running Quotes #Dumb Quotes #Torches Quotes

“When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.”
“Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.”

Source : "Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is 'Sort of God'". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.newsbusters.org. June 5, 2009.
“That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.”
“People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.”

Source : Guillaume Apollinaire, Peter F. Read (2004). “The Cubist Painters”, p.6, Univ of California Press
“All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?”
“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.”
“Take account of yourselves before you are brought to account.”
“I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.”

Source : Sonia Johnson (1989). “Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution”, Wildfire Books

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