5832 Quotes & Sayings

I tried to convince the kids at the bus stop to climb up with me, even a little ways, but all of them said they didn't want to get dirty. Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt? I couldn't believe it. — Wendelin Van Draanen

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. — J.K. Rowling

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it. — George Herbert

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier. — Jim Henson

The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man; — Arthur Schopenhauer

She wanted commitment? He's tattoo her fucking name on his forehead if he had to. — Joanna Wylde

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely. — Shaun David Hutchinson

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions. — Mahatma Gandhi

Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon. — J.K. Rowling

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought. — Helen Keller