Top 1200 Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one.

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems you really like. There are some poets who are fairly big names in contemporary poetry and who write a book and I might like three or four poems in the book, but the rest of them don't appeal to me personally; but I think that's the way it really ought to be. I think it's really a rare thing to like everything that somebody has written.

My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed where, somewhere at the event, I would find a book and sit under a table where nobody could get me and go back into book land.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

It may seem like I came out of the blue. But, my road was long, windy, full of hurdles, and even some dead ends. I lost family. I lost friends. I even lost my way. When I reached what felt like rock bottom, I realized I had a responsibility to everyone who believed in me and to kids, like me, who just needed a chance and something to believe in.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.

It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She asked out of nowhere. "By 'it' do you mean herpes?" "You are too much," Mom said, "The book, Hazel. I mean the book.

My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, it's been devastating. And it's all Obama.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book out and I'm like this is going to be cool, I'm going to whoop on this guy now, so I studied the book and I go back and the guy crushes me again.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn't until after it was sold that I said 'Mira Grant' wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.

I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, 'Allegheny Mountain,' lying at home in his hospital bed.

There's no service ribbon for people who fought in Korea. We lost over 30,000 men between 1951 and 1953 - as many as we lost in 15 years in Vietnam.

I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.

I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, 'What am I waiting for?' Motherhood has been the greatest gift of my life.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It's all out. It goes full length. . . . A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book.

The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

I had all this other life happening, and 'Lost' was this sort of seasoning - but it was never the main course. It was just this thing that I would nip off and do, so to be recognized for 'Lost' all the time is amazing.

Africa is a paradise. You meet people who look at life differently. They love the adventure.

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be better than the world and what is in it.

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

The space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon.

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one

The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.

There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it.

Loss is universal. I've lost grandparents that I dearly adored, lost animals that were like brothers to me. Many of us have gone through terrible breakups.

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

When I write a new draft, I don't like to feel I'm tied to any previous version. That's why I don't use a computer to write. The text looks, on the screen, too much like a book. It's not a book - it's a bad first draft of something that could one day be a book.

Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.