Breaststrokes Quotes & Sayings

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. — Socrates

Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write. — Mitchel Resnick

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound — John Betjeman

The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again. — William Shakespeare

because I wanted to — Craig Johnson

Ayn Rand called it 'the sanction of the victim.' If you give the impression to your oppressor that you accept, or even approve of, his oppression of you, things will only get worse. Whatever else happens, never tell someone that you accept that he has the right to rule you. Never. You will make him into a monster, and you will make yourself into a slave. — Larken Rose

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. — Ernest Hemingway,

I was calling you earlier when your name and number flashed up on my cell's screen. But instead of it being you, it was Chris."
"You still have my number programed into your phone? — Shaye Evans

It's nice when it's quiet. You become human then.'
'And what do people become if it's noisy,then?'
'They become objects, things. — Ayako Sono