Blagovest Penev Quotes & Sayings

We bow to the inevitable. We're not wheat, we're buckwheat! When a storm comes along it flattens ripe wheat because it's dry and can't bend with the wind. But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends. And when the wind has passed, it springs up almost as straight and strong as before. We aren't a stiff-necked tribe. We're mighty limber when a hard wind's blowing, because we know it pays to be limber. When trouble comes we bow to the inevitable without any mouthing, and we work and we smile and we bide our time. And we play along with lesser folks and we take what we can get from them. And when we're strong enough, we kick the folks whose necks we've climbed over. That, my child, is the secret of the survival. — Margaret Mitchell

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago. — Reed Hastings

Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people? — Rick Riordan

For some reason, I've been thinking more and more about my mother and the way her life failed her, humiliated her with impulses beyond her command, broke her with year after year of the same. — Mark Z. Danielewski

I figure you know, I think you're an asshole. I don't only not like you, I hate you. I hate how you played me. I hate that I was so fucking stupid, I let myself get played. I hate that you know about this because I hate that you know anything about me. And I hate that I have to accept help from you. — Kristen Ashley

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. — Alexander Pope

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots. — Dennis Quaid

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places. — Yvon Chouinard

She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she'd never thought of, to show her new points of view. — Anna Godbersen

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction. — Philip Roth

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn ... — David R. Brower

Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out. — Augustine Of Hippo

To the traditional traveller - let alone travel writer - this might seem absurd. The whole point of travel is to go deep. To spend time in a place, to get under its skin. How can one possibly appreciate what makes a city or a country tick in a bare ten hours — Hugh Thomson

Did anyone of those bullish investors ever think what would happen to the Treasury market if the Fed ever became a net seller of bonds? — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability. — Edward Burtynsky