Brain Pickings Newsletter Quotes & Sayings

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough. — Henry Ward Beecher

Aniimal Town:~) The place where Dreams & Adventures come true! — Aniimal Town

You're only as smart as your ERA. — Jim Bouton

You make velocity look good. — Melissa Cutler

I generally play strong people and scary people. — John Hawkes

The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process. — Romano Prodi

When we push for immediate results and instant healing, we never inhabit the important in-between phase, which is where much of the learning and growth actually happen. — Bo Forbes

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

KING (to Sakuntala): O fair lady!
The tear drop that once stood
trembling on your lower lip
-and I watched uncaring, lost in delusion-
while it still clings to your gently-curving lashes,
I shall now wipe away, my beloved,
to free myself of remorse. — Kalidasa

I guess the most difficult thing for me was living up to my mom's expectations. I was always scared that if I didn't do things in this certain way, then my mom just wouldn't think I was great. That's something that was difficult for me growing up. — Milla Jovovich