A Sound Of Thunder Simile Quotes & Sayings

I live a mad, abandoned life, draped in a shawl and going from garret to garret. — Shirley Jackson

The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story - that is to say, thirty or forty years ago. Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in. THE AUTHOR. HARTFORD, 1876. CHAPTER I "TOM!" No answer. "TOM!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM! — Mark Twain

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive. — Jodi Picoult

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything. — Oswald Chambers

A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity — Carl F. H. Henry

Knowledge is air to the wise.
Wisdom is poison to a fool. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog. — Bob Parsons

To dear Peter, most faithful of friends and dearest of companions, a dog in a thousand — Agatha Christie

The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck on our paths because we are unable to reimagine our lives differently from what they are right now. We hold on desperately to the status quo, afraid that if we let go, we will be swept away by the torrential undercurrents of our emptiness. — Marc Gafni