Beneficent Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. — Peter Porter

One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things. — Terry Teachout

For no magic frightens a cold heart more than the threat of feeling that which it inflicts. — Heather Killough-Walden

JOHN: you hacked my dad's wallet?? — Andrew Hussie

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay. — Leonard Cohen

Video games are ubiquitous now. — Eugene Jarvis

It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs. — Janeane Garofalo

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world. — James D. Watson

I still had sting my eyes, prickling at Maven's memory. It's hard to forget him as he was. No. As he pretended to be. The kind, forgotten boy. The shadow of the flame. — Victoria Aveyard

Everything in life is theater. — Margo Jones

We must have the hope to be able to succeed. — Walter Munk

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish. — Shannon L. Alder

Everything seemed to grow blacker as I sat there, except for the fireflies whose tiny pulsing lights drew arcs through the dark summer air. On off . . . on off . . . on off . . . on off. The longer I stared, the dizzier I got, until I felt as if the world was tipping and pitching me forward down the mountainside into the long throat of the night. — Ruth Ozeki