"I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Thinking Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Helping Quotes

“T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.”

Source : Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.116
“The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.”
“There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled in their world. Nothing visible or capable of explanation. In fact, I'd never seen a whale. When I first witnessed their terrible death agony, I couldn't get the picture of a whale being harpooned out of my mind. It was a hideous mind-blowing sight. That day I recognised a purpose on the journey of my life.”
“Nothing before you counts,â€ he said. â€œAnd I canâ€™t even imagine an after.”
“We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.”
“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.”
“We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages of egoic madness in the 20th century, and even now it still is playing itself out. It has not quite come to an end yet.”
“We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.”

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