Alameter Quotes & Sayings

Why are you Ojo the Unlucky?" asked the tin man. "Because I was born on a Friday." "Friday is not unlucky," declared the Emperor. "It's just one of seven days. Do you suppose all the world becomes unlucky one-seventh of the time?" "It was the thirteenth day of the month," said Ojo. "Thirteen! Ah, that is indeed a lucky number," replied the Tin Woodman. "All my good luck seems to happen on the thirteenth. I suppose most people never notice the good luck that comes to them with the number 13, and yet if the least bit of bad luck falls on that day, they blame it to the number, and not to the proper cause. — L. Frank Baum

As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood. — John Coyle

I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion. — Naomie Harris

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident — Jean-Paul Sartre

I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison. — Michael Wadleigh

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another. — Franz Grillparzer

Yes, it takes a lot of plant material to make a drop of oil, but a small drop of oil then contains the full force of the entire plant- of all of those plants. When you have a bottle of rose oil, you have the life force of 5,000 pounds of roses. That's a lot of plant. And that means a lot of life. — Andrew Edwin Jenkins

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story ... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words
the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. — Stephen King

Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time ... When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. — Muriel Barbery

What goes on around you ... compares little with what goes on inside you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good four to six weeks is about right for a proper break. — Kevin Pietersen

-"You're just a stupid human ... Because that's all you are, underneath it, just fragile, useless human who bleeds easily."
-"Jesus. It's like I'm a muggle to your pure-blood or something."
-She just glared at me.
-I backed up, keeping an eye on her. This so wasn't the time for Harry Potter references. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous. — G.K. Chesterton

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. — Thomas Aquinas