Baklanova Quotes & Sayings

There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others. To pronounce such a name either ones own or someone else's is to invite jeopardy. This it seemed was such a name. — Diane Setterfield

My annual goal is to read seventy-five books, which may sound like a lot. — Tony Reinke

Under the sword lifted high, There is hell making you tremble. But go ahead, And you have the land of bliss. — Miyamoto Musashi

That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come. — Vartan Gregorian

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more. — Harry Reid

Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum. — Lisa Kleypas

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are all the fruits of pleasure's toil. — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments. — Jimi Hendrix

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things. — Jackie Cooper

The practice of doing more than necessary works best when packing lunch boxes — Josh Stern

She was reduced to the dependency of an infant, too terrified of life itself to find solace anywhere but in the familiar succoring breast and in the sound of that same heartbeat remembered from the womb. — Dean Koontz

The world isn't just because only then we would have the power to change it. — John Green

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe. — Phil McGraw

She stood lost in eternity ... watching the immense sky ... — Angela Carter