Achene Quotes & Sayings

This is not for you. — Mark Danielewski

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record. — Erykah Badu

The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze. — John O'Donohue

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives. — Max McKeown

I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight. — Shaggy

People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome. — Thornton Wilder

The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. — Charles Darwin

It was time for Cork to return to the bed in the guest room. But he lingered beside this son who trusted him lay awake knowing there were monsters in the wind outside, that his son's fear was not unjustified, and that Stevie would have to face them alone someday. There were people out there so cruel they would wound him for the pleasure of it, dreadful circumstances no man in his worst imaginings could conjure, disappointments so overwhelming they could crush his dreams like eggshells. For a child like Stevie, a child of special graces, there would be such pain that Cork nearly wept in anticipation of it. Against those monsters, a father was powerless. But again the simple terrors of the night, he would do his best. — William Kent Krueger

Her timing sucked. She was pretty sure the Fates were smoking joints and sitting around laughing at their crystal ball. — T.S. Joyce

Book lovers are not necessarily people lovers. — Murray Browne

There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence. — Corra May Harris

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America. — Douglas Wilder

She looked at her Name Paper again. A slave for thirteen years. A freeman for thirteen minutes. — Christina Daley