Birkelund Flute Quotes & Sayings

The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace. — Adam Davidson

The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd. — John Shelby Spong

Sometimes not looking for something is the best way to look for it — Himanshu Chhabra

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver. — Philip Roth

Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics."
-Adam Pazandak — Adam

The real journey of the Indian aerospace programme, however, had begun with the Rohini Sounding Rocket (RSR) Programme. What is it that distinguishes a sounding rocket from a Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV) and from a missile? In fact, they are three — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking. — Eckhart Tolle

Jesus. He could see the headlines now. Aliens Among Us. Run! — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them. — Joseph Campbell

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. — William James

And then I feel it. It saturates the water around me, thrumming withoug rhythm. The pulse. Someone is close. Someone I don't reconize. Slowly, I tiptoe backward, careful not to splash or slosh. After a few seconds, tiptoeing doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If I can sense them, they can sense me. The pulse is getting stronger. They're heading straight toward me. Fast. — Anna Banks

All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost. — Poe Ballantine