Adorning The Dark Quotes & Sayings

I roll a magazine into a tube and peer at her through it as if it were a telescope...She pushes her beak into it as far as it will go, biting the empty air inside. Putting my mouth to my side of my paper telescope I boom into it: 'Hello, Mabel.' She pulls her beak free. All the feathers on her forehead are raised. She shakes her tail rapidly from side to side and shivers with happiness. — Helen Macdonald

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody. — Andrew Young

Pono always say slow-motion vulgar. — Kiana Davenport

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted. — Jesus Christ

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes. — Eugene Field

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. — Cato The Elder

Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can — Albert Bandura

If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed. — Ridley Scott

Despite Netanyahu's willingness to make concessions, Clinton and his advisers felt that he was not committed enough to the peace process. As a consequence, Clinton sent his senior election advisers to Israel to run Ehud Barak's campaign.13 The American contribution to Barak's election was so enormous that Israelis widely recognized that Barak owed his office to the Clinton administration. — Caroline B. Glick

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity. — Ikue Mori