Bagpuss Toys Quotes & Sayings

Snowflake. You catch the snowflake but when you look in your hand you don't have it no more. Maybe you see this dechado. But before you see it it is gone. If you want to see it you have to see it on its own ground. If you catch it you lose it. And where it goes there is no coming back from. Not even God can bring it back. — Cormac McCarthy

You should also be aware of the internal barriers that we often impose on ourselves. Too many women sit on the side of the room when they should be sitting at the table. Too many women lower their voices when they should be speaking up. This is not our fault. We internalize messages that say it's wrong for us to be outspoken, aggressive, and as powerful as - or even more powerful than - men. — Sheryl Sandberg

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever. — Louis Freeh

I have an amazing and supportive family. I'm fortunate to have a close relationship with everyone. — Jonathan Keltz

My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights. — Joyce Banda

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change ... — Malcolm Fraser

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely. — Haruki Murakami

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful. — Lady Gaga

I'm a very old man.
I've had lots of problems.
Most of them never happened..! — Mark Twain

He was out of his mind," said Atticus. "Don't like to contradict you, Mr. Finch - wasn't crazy - mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He'd never have met you face to face. — Harper Lee

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it. — Drew Carey

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think. — Julian Baggini

I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out. — Carrie Brownstein

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety. — Frederic Bastiat

I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not clear that we will survive our own folly, but we have a rare opportunity to do that if we listen and see the messages that nature is showing at us right now, that the finiteness of our own resources and our own planet are showing us right now. — Edgar Mitchell