Birdy 1984 Quotes & Sayings

It's a beautiful thing, to my people who keep an impressive wingspan, even when the cubicle shrink. — Aesop Rock

Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits, to unravel all difficulties. What if it were suggested that the brick-built Pyramid of Hawara had been laid brick by brick by a single workman? Given time, this would not be beyond the bounds of possibility. But Nature, like the Pharaohs, had greater forces at her command to do the work better and more expeditiously than is admitted by Uniformitarians. — Joseph Prestwich

Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time, especially when we're standing close. Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there's something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn't want to. It likes it there. — Karen Marie Moning

It was a fractal of ugliness, disgusting at every level of self-similarity. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable. — Blaise Pascal

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind. — Amy Tan

I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it. — Estelle

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. — Jim Talent

What happened?" He directed the question her way. Hadleigh shrugged, it seemed obvious to her. "I think I broke the pretty one. — Jane Cousins

Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities ... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies. — Sulak Sivaraksa

Reality rarely changes; only our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives. — Chip St. Clair

The uncertainty of tomorrow can only be understood by those who don't know for sure if they will live another day. — Rumiko Takahashi

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003. — Louis Navellier

Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway. — Randy Travis

I'd known love before, and it had brought me so much pain that I had retreated behind an impenetrable wall of indifference, freezing out everything, everyone. — Julie Kagawa