Asfar Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal. — Stella Young

History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one can argue with ... — Brad Meltzer

The only critic is a full house. — Rudolf Nureyev

You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run -Cecily — Lauren DeStefano

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad. — Kevin Eubanks

One goes wherever one is still admitted. Someone told me that I might be able to get a visa for Haiti or San Domingo here. — Stefan Zweig

Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart. — Fennel Hudson

But most of all I feel my brain, up there taking in blood and looking out on the world and noticing humor and light and smells and dogs and every other thing in the world - everything in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be. — Ned Vizzini

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. — Mother Teresa

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources. — Carl Sagan

Rolanth Temple is a weather queen's temple, open to the east and west, the roof supported by beams and thick marble columns. Air moves through no matter the season, and no one shivers, except for the priestesses. — Kendare Blake

There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ... — Walt Whitman

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process. — William Zinsser