Alakea Quotes & Sayings

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues. — John Wesley

It wasn't that much of a stretch to play a gay demon. I am, you know, both gay and a demon. Don't tell my wife. — Ken Marino

If a frog is placed into a pot of boiling water it will immediately try to jump out; but if it's placed into a pot of cool water that's gradually heated until boiling, it will stay put and never try to jump out. — Richard Beckham II

Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan. — Bailey Chase

The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.' — Andrew Clements

The Media and the internet have taken up the responsibility of molding the young ones amongst us, leaving us to pursue
the careers we treasure. — Oche Otorkpa

The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects. — James Gleick

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking. — Aleister Crowley

It's important to people in the Land-of-Almost-Awake that it should be this way, because they believe that nothing really ever completely dies. It just turns into a story, undergoes a little shift in grammar, changes tense from 'now' to 'then'. A — Fredrik Backman

I'm sorry, you just remind me of someone. (Rose) Old boyfriend? (Gallagher) No, my great-grandfather. (Rose) That's not particularly flattering. I thought I looked rather good for my age. (Gallagher) — Sherrilyn Kenyon