Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.
– Susan Scott
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- And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- I get my share of mud flung my way, but the secret is to dance in the rain and the mud will wash away. – Philip Catshill
- Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that’s not loaded down with manure? – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Men may act as cruelly as dragons, but dragons will never act as men do. – Steven Poore
- you’re so full of shit, you ought to be a cow manure – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- We’re told to plug our nosesto escape the smells. Manure.Rot.Poverty?Reality. – Holly Bodger
- You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, or turn it into compost and grow a garden. – Rebecca ODonnell
- The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- Part of the artist’s job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional. – Sally Mann
- If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn’t you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs. – Lauren Willig
- The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace. – Neil Hayes
- John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts. – Paul C Nagel
- nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. – Peter Redgrove
- I glory in the emotionally commonplace – Lionel Shriver
- …when I chose you, I didn’t want the commonplace – I didn’t want a ‘partner’ – I wanted a shrine… – John Geddes
- We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living – Tom Chatfield
- It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present. – Linda Bender
- To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you. – Debasish Mridha
- To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons. – Richelle E Goodrich
- She wasn’t to know there was no room for Soren – or any other boy – in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place.Luca. – Lee Monroe
- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn. – Markus Zusak
- This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy. – Charles ens
- She must have been very anxious about a first boy friend to fall in love with a Colgate boy – Haidji
- I love a boy with sun-kissed hair,With ocean storms in his bright blue eyes,I love a boy who drinks my tears when I cry. – Petra March
- I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy’s eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards. – SA Tawks
- Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy-”just a boy. – Shannon A Thompson
- One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy. – SA Tawks
- Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon – that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.Neo: What truth?Spoon boy: There is no spoon. – The Wachowski Brothers
- It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K. – Dave Eggers
- You don’t tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn. – Markus Zusak
- Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy. – Coco J Ginger
- I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be. – Gabrielle Zevin
- it’s like kissing a boy, finally, a boy – David Levithan
- I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man,Or the man who’s half a boy. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power. – Chuck Palahniuk
- It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power. – Chuck Palahniuk