Bruchus Pisorum Quotes & Sayings

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career. — Jeff Bridges

Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale. — Marie Rutkoski

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells. — Diana Wynne Jones

To do something innovative means that you reject reason. — Jonathan Ive

The backs of his hands remind him of paper burning in the fireplace, the moment the taut membrane goes slack into a thousand wrinkles, just before it withers to ash and air. — Barbara Kingsolver

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction? — David Byrne

[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time; but let the cat come and take hold of its neck, it forgets all about it" [You may] pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are, [but] unless you realise the soul there is no freedom. Not talking, theorising, argumentation, but realisation. That I call practical religion. — Swami Vivekananda

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony ... — Jane Austen

Like Hemingway said, the only thing that could spoil a day was people. — Nikki Sixx

There are "well-known secrets" out there and there are people who are "so happy they could die." Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they're right. Basically what I'm saying is, I usually don't know what people are talking about. — Ellen DeGeneres

What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.' — Pope Pius XI

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. — Edna Ferber

The strange thing is that everyone knows the answer. We need to decentralize decisions, introduce limited markets, and legitimize the semi-illegal gray economy so that it can grow. — Ken Follett