Ash Ketchum Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemon grenades? — Melissa De La Cruz

And because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. — Michael Chabon

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different! — Alan Moore

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there. — Miranda Richardson

And then, after five minutes of silence, almost inaudibly, the old man sighed and said, more to himself than to Artyom: 'Lord, what a splendid world we ruined . . . — Dmitry Glukhovsky

Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs. — Stephen Jay Gould

The moments of silence are gone. We run from them into the rush of unimportant things, so filled is the quiet with the painful whispers of all that goes unspoken. Busy-ness is our drug of choice, numbing our minds just enough to keep us from dwelling on all that we fear we can't change. A compilation of coping mechanisms, we have become our fatigue. Unwilling or unable to cut ourselves free of this modern machine we have built, we're dragged in its wake all too quickly toward our end. The virtue of a society's culture is reflected in the physical, mental, and emotional health of its people. The time has come to part ways with all that is toxic, and preserve our quality of life. — L.M. Browning

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. — Kin Hubbard

Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay. — Miyamoto Musashi

The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly. In seeing them, in bringing them into the domain of reflective self-awareness, there is a possibility of emerging from their constraints. Choice emerges where before there was only blind and conditioned behavior. — Mark Epstein

Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough. — John Wyndham

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets. — Takeshi Kitano

I was not asking, sir." Jameson. Looked. Shocked. "Where on earth did you go for lunch, Sanders?" he asked, almost laughing. — Stylo Fantome