Bridge To Wiseman's Cove Chapter Quotes & Sayings

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. — Thomas Merton

We have reason. It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La. It came to me in a vision long, long ago. I foresaw a time when man exalting in the technique of murder, would rage so hotly over the world, that every book, every treasure would be doomed to destruction. This vision was so vivid and so moving that I determined to gather together all things of beauty and culture that I could and preserve them here against the doom toward which the world is rushing. Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity crashing headlong against each other. The time must come, my friend, when brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword. For when that day comes, the world must begin to look for a new life. And it is our hope that they may find it here. — James Hilton

I am not a warthog from hell. — Flannery O'Connor

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end. — Rudy Rucker

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the way I think. — Michael Schumacher

If you just want to be a star, go away. — Jenifer Lewis

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat. — Leo Tolstoy

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark. — Kirk Hammett

I rather like the fact that women are so into vampires though. I suppose if it wasn't for Sparkly the neighborhood vampire that would not have been possible. — Cyma Rizwaan Khan

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? — Wendy Doniger

If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee. — Nora Roberts

Being dead filled her beyond fulfillment. Like a fruit
suffused with its own mystery and sweetness,
she was filled with her vast death, which was so new,
she could not understand that it had happened. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time. — Dave Barry

A single tree doesn't make a forest. — Chris Bradford