Burtenshaws Quotes & Sayings

On the fifth night of this solitude, she falls asleep with a candle burning and dreams herself a mermaid with a thick and golden tail, a crown of shimmering conch shells, then awakens with a start. Whether the ship hit something or something hit the ship, another change has come. The ship is dying; she can feel it slipping away. She waits beneath the blanket for icy water to greet her. But instead of the sea, it's a bear that opens the door.

A great white bear up on its hind legs steps across the threshold.

'Good morning,' he says, and reaches out a paw. — Danielle Dutton

Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees. — Reid Hoffman

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health. — Ivan Illich

Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life.
The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan.
The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying. — Jaimal Yogis

I'm blind without my glasses. — Adam Ant

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him. — Maria Montessori

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident . — Sidney Lumet

The first heartbreak is the hardest one, because you don't know what to expect," Lynn told him, and David knew she was speaking from experience. "It will get better, I promise. You just have to give it time. — Geoff Laughton

if the gospels had been identical to each other, word for word, this would have raised charges that the authors had conspired among themselves to coordinate their stories in advance, and that would have cast doubt on them. — Lee Strobel

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space. — Randy Quaid

Loneliness is holding in a joke because you have no one to share it with. — Neil Strauss

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life. — Bernard Hopkins