Denis Thurrell > Denis's Quotes

“Dedication to God gives women strength, no matter what others do.”
― Neva Coyle, A Woman of Strength: Reclaim Your Past, Seize Your Present, and Secure Your Future

“Λέμε μια λέξη και εκμηδενίζουμε έναν άνθρωπο.”
― Thomas Bernhard, The Loser

“Scholars have argued that without humanism the Reformation could not have succeeded, and it is certainly difficult to imagine the Reformation occurring without the knowledge of languages, the critical handling of sources, the satirical attacks on clerics and scholastics, and the new national feeling that a generation of humanists provided. On the other hand, the long-term success of the humanists owed something to the Reformation. In Protestant schools and universities classical culture found a permanent home. The humanist curriculum, with its stress on languages and history, became a lasting model for the arts curriculum.”
― Steven Ozment, The Age of Reform 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We’ll all be glad to see you die. No one’s going to miss you, Gary. Maybe I’ll walk behind you and spit on your brains after they blow them all over the road. Maybe I’ll do that. Maybe we all will.” It”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“You got used to a bit of peace and you got used to a bit of extra pretty polly.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“-ახლა, უკნიდან უნდა დამარჭო, მაგრამ მანმადე მაგ პენისს კარგად გაგიპოხავ ვაზელინით, რო შედებისას არ მეტკინოს. კუნთები შემეკუმშება, იმიტო რო ამას პირველად ვაკეთებ, მარა ვეცდები, მოვდუნდე, - თქვა და ღრმა ნაფაზი დაარტყა.
ლორა დიდად თავშენახული ქალი არ ბრძანდებოდა, ჰოდა, ვაზელინი არ აღმოაჩნდა. ამიტომ რაღაც სხვა ნივთიერება იპოვა, რომელიც, მისი აზრით, საპოხად გამოდგებოდა. ძალიან ბლანტი და წებოვანი რამე იყო. მოკლედ, ბლომად წაუსვა საწყალ ქლიავას ასოზე.
რეზინის წებო აღმოჩნდა. იმ საცოდავს კანში ჩააკვდა და აუტანელი ტკივილისაგან საშინლად ააღრიალა. ბნედიანივით იკრუნჩხებოდა საწოლზე და გრძნობდა, რომ ცოტაც და ასოს თავი ნაღდად მოსძვრებოდა.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“I really like Matilda and that's not a clever book, is it? It's for children. But she's my favourite main character because she comes from an awful family and likes reading, like I do. Those special powers must've made her life a lot easier, though. She wouldn't be working in a pub at thirty-two.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“She turned and walked towards Krupp. She moved like smoke from the end of a cigarette in a still room, languorous, smooth. Her beauty stopped the conversation of the few people she walked past. Eyes of envy, lust, admiration, longing, followed her every move as she glided through the sumptuously furnished, dimly lit Champagne Bar. Krupp realised she was moving through the room deliberately towards him. He held his breath again as she approached him. His heart thumped against his lungs, making it hard to breathe out. Krupp sat up and he gulped when she saw him and looked straight into his eyes. He felt a tingle up his spine as she seemed to float, slowly, like a ghostly spirit between the tables. He wondered if she was real or a spectre. This could not possibly be Freya, he thought, and yet there was something …
She arrived at the table. She relaxed a knee. Their eyes met, a small smile on her lips. Krupp suddenly remembered his manners and stood, hauling himself up with the aid of his stick and the arm of the sofa. It could not have been an elegant move, he thought with annoyance. He should have remained seated.
“May I join you?” she said in perfect German.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Dominion of Four

“Captain Scultetus said, “Sir, I am the commander of the Swakopmund Coast Guard. My name and rank  are Captain Oskar Scultetus! I respectfully beg you not to open fire upon my city!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

“…she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust and sand.”
― John Hersey, Fling and Other Stories

“My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.”
― E.M. Forster

“...And what if you don't wait? You just drive over the edge yourself? Wouldn't that be the only right thing to do, the one that would solve everything?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“If I ain’t nothing but trouble, you ain’t nothing but Nothing.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

“Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Well, then, if a Point by moving three inches, makes a Line of three inches represented by 3; and if a straight Line of three inches, moving parallel to itself, makes a Square of three inches every way, represented by 32; it must be that a Square of three inches every way, moving somehow parallel to itself (but I don’t see how) must make Something else (but I don’t see what) of three inches every way—and this must be represented by 33.” “Go to bed,” said I, a little ruffled by his interruption: “if you would talk less nonsense, you would remember more sense.” So”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions