Charles Keeling Quotes & Sayings

For some strange reason which should have alarmed me, I found him completely enchanting. — Penny Reid

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy. — Franz Kafka

Death isn't funny."
"Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us - us humans - death is so sad that we must laugh at it. — Robert A. Heinlein

I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God. — Anne Lamott

I'm happiest with my family around me. — Amy Winehouse

Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him. — J.K. Rowling

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents. — Doris Lessing

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I appreciate all my fans, on all occasions, everyday of my life. Its your presence & your loyalty that has given me great strength — Michael Jackson

No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life — Nobuhiro Watsuki

Love in the Daytime

My lover
Shines like the sun.
I may be burned
Black as a frying pan,
Sweating buckets
And keeling over
With vertigo,
But why worry?
My lover
Shines like the sun.
She pours over my body
And breathes into my soul.
It feels so good
When she lights
My love on fire
Like dry wood.

Translated from Tigrinya by Charles Cantalupo with Ghirmai Negash — Reesom Haile

So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? They're the same thing, Peter said, the answer sudden and sure, although a surprise to him. — Sara Pennypacker

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery. — Henry Bessemer

Each of us have monsters that live in our depths. Like all mythological sea monsters, they are too big and too powerful to be caged. The mysteries we attempt to cage are the ones most likely to eat us. We — Jonathan Martin