Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.
What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.
And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and his 'topknot' was missing (a 'topknot' is on the top of a dragon's head and looks a bit like a shark's fin) but I bought him in an instant.
If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.
There is a sign in the heavens Another light in the darkness A better time is beginning There is a fire star coming I see the mark of the ice bear In the tears of the dragon And you'd better start wishing There is a fire star coming Stay with me, my love. . . . . . . . . . Until the stars have blinked their last Wherever on this earth you walk He will arouse, excite, inspire, My Valentine, my one dark fire.
Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.
I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry. " "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
When you're hot your hot, when you're not your not.
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.