Brain Pickings Growth Quotes & Sayings

Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors. — Chanakya

The sound of the kettle boiling was in itself the sound of normality, of reason, the sound of a fight back against the sadness of things. — Alexander McCall Smith

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures. — Stephen Kinzer

That winter everything changed. Stella had lost not only her twin but her best friend. Bayonie was never mentioned again, so that, in time, Stella wondered if she really had ever existed. — Helen Laycock

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7. — Val Kilmer

And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was necessary to do what? ... to talk.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman") — Eudora Welty

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural. — Ian Hamilton Finlay

Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what. — John Lennon

Experience means nothing unless you're paying attention. — Stephen Smoke

I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates. — Nick Hornby