Birdenbire Tdk Quotes & Sayings

But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality. — Nenia Campbell

Once when Newton was away from his astronomical laboratory, he had returned to find that his little poodle dog Diamond had torn into shreds and eaten up part of his map showing distant star points. Perhaps God was punishing him for his neglect of God. He had picked up his poodle from its basket and had brushed its curls with his loving hand as he- not shouting in anger- had whispered serenely, consolingly, "Ah, little Diamond! Diamond! Thou dost not know the harm which thou hast done." Some corner of the universe had been made into pulp. He had left it so. — Marguerite Young

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad. — George R R Martin

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running. — Cathy Freeman

A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23 — Philip G. Zimbardo

We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid. — Justin Timberlake

I've found that I've settled into myself a little bit more in last year and started wearing things that I feel comfortable with and my own style and ... I decided to just embrace the person that I am and the look I like, and what I think is pretty. — Emily Procter

Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places. — Alison Croggon

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion. — Richard Armour

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop. — Andy Gray

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth. — Laurie Simmons