Hello, NPCs, and welcome to the second annual 31-Day Challenge! This year, we’re taking…
Year: 2017
“Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry”
-Pink Floyd, Breathe
“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
-Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles, Manon Lescaut
“But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.”
-Joanna Franklin Bell
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
“I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.” -W.B. Yeats, The…
“[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
-Jim Henson
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
– Bruce Lee
“Wait wait wait wait wait… What’s this about a Mages Swimsuit Calendar?” –Mr. Panda (circa…
“Of what use is a dream, if not a blueprint for courageous action?”
-Adam West, Batman: the Movie
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
―Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“Mine Enemy is growing old —
I have at last Revenge —
The Palate of the Hate departs —
If any would avenge”
-Emily Dickinson
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”
-Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The…
“In a ravine she lived, and took shape as a spider of monstrous form, weaving her black webs in a cleft of the mountains. There she sucked up all light that she could find, and spun it forth again in dark nets of strangling gloom, until no light more could come to her abode; and she was famished.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
-Winston Churchill
Continuing an irregular tradition based on one of the most popular posts of all time,…
“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale.”
-Harrison Ford
“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”
-Mario Andretti
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes”
– The Beatles, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
“That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.”
-Zadie Smith, White Teeth
“Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.”
-Charles M. Schulz
