Chaiink Quotes & Sayings

The world would be a boring place if we were all the same. — Allison Rushby

My chances with moral vanity," Stephen interrupted, "when the alternative is — Jonathan Franzen

Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma. — Sandra Cisneros

Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.
She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she? — James Joyce

Clouseau: Does yer dewg bite? Inn Keeper: No Clouseau: Nice Doggy (bends down to pet a dachshund - it snarls and bites him) I thought you said yer dewg did not bite! Inn Keeper: Zat ... iz not my dog! — Peter Sellers

What we need to learn from children isn't childish. Being with them connects us to the deep wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. Now, when the world is so confused and its problems so complicated, I feel we need our children more than ever. Their natural wisdom points the way to solutions that lie, waitingto be recognized, within our own hearts. — Michael Jackson

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. — William Hazlitt

Let me tell you, though, my father never once cheated on his taxes. That's just how he is, a real old-fashioned straight arrow. — Haruki Murakami

We live lives that are waveforms constantly changing with time, now positive, now negative. Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informationless state of signal zero. — Thomas Pynchon

Some people just liked putting limitations on others. They liked having the power to say "No, you cannot do that." They liked to decide what was good for someone else and then take away that person's right to decide for themselves. But there was no adventure in life if you did only what was safe and allowed. — Kelly Romo