Catling Quotes & Sayings

A little Toffee Crunch, — Patrick Skene Catling

However life started, once established, it persisted for over 3.5 billion years and evolved from microbial slime to the sophistication of human civilization. — David C. Catling

My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads. — Valerie June

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him. — Ramakrishna

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope. — Conor Oberst

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too. — Vincent Van Gogh

Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate. — Patrick Skene Catling

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive — Mary Pipher

I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him. — Dennis Quaid

I never understand why women think drama and bullshit are attractive to guys. They're not. I'm going to be real clear about this, ladies, so pay attention: Prince Charming doesn't come to rescue cunty lunatics. — Tucker Max

In the Solar System, Enceladus ought to be one of the highest priorities for the world's space agencies. Enceladus has a source of energy (tidal heating), organic material, and liquid water. That's a textbook-like list of those properties needed for life. Moreover, nature has provided astrobiologists with the ultimate free lunch: jets that spurt Enceladus's organic material into space. — David C. Catling

An intriguing thought came to her as she looked around: She had spent too much time guessing how to make her son happy. What if her son's biggest dream was floating around the Hall of Dreams? If she peered into it, maybe she would discover how to help him. The Fairy Godmother raised her wand and waved it in a quick circle. All the orbs in the Hall of Dreams instantly froze. Only one large orb in the distance kept moving. It floated toward her and landed in her hands. She peered inside it, anxious — Chris Colfer

People don't riot for no reason. And if you're finding you have to deal with the Ychana carefully now, it's because of how they've been treated in the past. — Ann Leckie

he - I do wish somebody would think up a new collective pronoun - — Charlotte MacLeod

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. — Gavin Bryars

The quietness here had an agreement with dust; neither settled. — Brian Catling

People want to fit in and do well, and so they do indescribably stupid things. — David Lagercrantz

All he needed was a locked room, ink, and sheets of virgin paper. This was his anchor, and he embedded it with the few scraps of energy he had left. He instinctively knew that memory and imagination share the same ghost quarters of the brain, that they are like impressions in loose sand, footfalls in snow. Memory normally weighed more, but not here, where the forest washed it away, smoothing out every contour of its vital meaning. Here, he would use imagination to stamp out a lasting foundation that refused the insidious erosions buffeting around him. He would dream his way back to life with impossible facts. — B. Catling