Balmat New York Quotes & Sayings

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. — George Bentham

Maybe the meaning was in how we heard the sound, but did nothing about it until it was so loud we had no choice. — Cheryl Strayed

Well, this is the hardest part to believe; look, you can suspend me if you want to, but it's the God's honest truth. This man Tompkins came all the way down to where I was bending over the body at the foot of the stairs. I straightened up and covered him with my gun. It didn't faze him in the least, he kept moving right on past me toward the street-door. Not quickly, either; as slowly as if he was just going out for a walk. He said, 'It isn't my time yet. You can't do anything to me with that.' ("Speak To Me Of Death") — Cornell Woolrich

Every loss is a gain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But with you I am deeply passionately, unrequitedly in love. — Virginia Woolf

MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi' — Satyajit Ray

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does. — Eddie Murphy

In Euripedes's The Bacchae...Dionysus dispenses food, drink and comfort, and inspires communal energy, song and dance; he is rapture and rage, illumination and blindness. — Anya Taylor

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. — W. H. Auden

Maddy showed up around eleven to drop off Scarlet and take me dress shopping. She used her mom skills to get me off the couch.
"Hey, pumpkin, I'll get you a strawberry shake if you get up now," she whispered, stroking my head. "You'd like that, wouldn't you, baby? A big strawberry shake from Burger King. Does that sound good?"
"Can I have whipped cream too?" I asked with my eyes still closed.
"Sure, sweetie."
Tempted by a promised reward, I shuffled after her. — Bijou Hunter

I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have it in you, but when called to task, you rise and you find out who you are. — Joseph McGinty Nichol