Quotes & Sayings About Balloons Goodreads

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know. — Walter Cronkite

The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity. — Arthur Frederick Saunders

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself. — Charles Bukowski

I'm awed by how much iron will it would take to override his instinctive needs. And how much trust. — Susan Ee

We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, 'You'd better hurry up, they're going like hot cakes, and they're going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.' — David Stern

Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon. — Travis Fimmel

I only have eyes for you. — David Levithan

These words were utter'd in a pensive mood, Even while mine eyes were on that solemn sight: — William Wordsworth

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone. — Thomas Hood

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration. — Frederick Lenz

Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never contain all the relevant "existing things" does not render them useless, only limited. Categories like "woman," "butch," "lesbian," or "transsexual" are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them, and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting for immaculate classifications and impenetrable boundaries, let us strive to maintain a community that understands diversity as a gift, sees anomalies as precious, and treats all basic principles with a hefty dose of skepticism. — Gayle Rubin

Sincerity? I can fake that. — William J. Clinton

Simon, as always, stuck out at the club like a sore thumb, in jeans and an old T-shirt that said MADE IN BROOKLYN across the front. His freshly scrubbed hair was dark brown instead of green or pink, and his glasses perched crookedly on the end of his nose. He looked less as if he were contemplating the powers of darkness and more as if he were on his way to chess club. — Cassandra Clare

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy. — Portia Doubleday