Dainty Quote by Jostein Gaarder

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus…

— Edward M. Lerner

Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls…

— Anonymous

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

— Susan Sontag

Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were…

— James Salter

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

— Josh Ritter

Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched.…

— Jack Kerouac

The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers,…

— Virginia Woolf

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the…

— Louis Agassiz

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate,…

— Deborah Moggach

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all…

— Robin Zander

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

— Travis Beacham