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“A well-aimed spear is worth three.”
Source : Tad Williams (1994). “To Green Angel Tower”, p.221, Penguin
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“What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.”
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“Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.”
Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.233, Pan Macmillan
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“There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.”
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“For me to come in as the mayor already recognizing some of the problems that we were facing and also having put some of those reforms in place, I recognize what the advocates were talking about. I also recognize what the police department`s concerns were and what the community in general was concerned about.”
Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
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“I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.”
Source : 2000 On Margaret Thatcher. In The Times, 7 Mar.
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“When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.”
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“Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.”
