Bellbird Valley Quotes & Sayings

That was how I looked at life sometimes, as a warm meal that was growing cold. I knew I had to eat, or else I would die, but I had lost my appetite. — Herman Koch

Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools. — John Stahl-Wert

I'm too old to be a yuppie. — Hillary Clinton

Adventure is a nameless joy — Peter Straub

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master ... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems. — Charles Bukowski

But, no one
can tell without cease
our human
story, and so we
lose, lose — Li-Young Lee

It was indeed a time between, one second their thoughts all brambled airedale, the next all silken slumbering cat. It was a time to go to bed, yet still they lingered reluctant as boys to give over and wander in wide circles to pillow and night thoughts. It was a time to say much but not all. It was a time after first discoveries but not last ones. It was wanting to know everything and wanting to know nothing. It was the new sweetness of men starting to talk as they must talk. It was the possible bitterness of revelation. — Ray Bradbury

Gallimard: You have to do what I say! I'm conjuring you up in my mind!
Song: Rene, I've never done what you've said. Why should it be any different in your mind? — David Henry Hwang

There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him. — Frank Herbert

I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb ... — Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

I think the most important quality in a birdwatcher is a willingness to stand quietly and see what comes. Our everyday lives obscure a truth about existence - that at the heart of everything there lies a stillness and a light. — Lynn Thomson

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you. — Justin Timberlake

I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out ... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky