Cheekd Quotes & Sayings

I can feel you, even though I can't see you. — Nancy Holder

I would love people to understand that not everyone can give away $100, but everyone can take the time to help someone get across a street. — Lynn Schusterman

His lights blinked in binary read-out as he answered by voder, Eleven thousand two hundred thirty-eight with uncertainty plus-minus eighty-one representing possible identities and nulls. Shall I start program? — Robert A. Heinlein

The elms and the poplars were turning their ruffled backs to a sudden onslaught of wind, and a black thunderhead loomed above Ramsdale's white church tower when I looked around me for the last time. — Vladimir Nabokov

I've heard men complain of doing woman's work, and women complain of doing man's work," she added, fastening her bony thumb and forefinger on Gurgi's ear and marching him to a stool beside Taran, "but I've never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done! — Lloyd Alexander

You can look at the situation and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents. — Jack Welch

President Bush got an early Christmas gift. This week, President Bush was chosen as 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine. Not only that, Martha Stewart was chosen as person of the year by Doing Time magazine. — Conan O'Brien

Joy has to do with seeing how big, how completely unobstructed, and how precious things are. Resenting what happens to you and complaining about your life are like refusing to smell the wild roses when you go for a morning walk, or like being so blind that you don't see a huge black raven when it lands in the tree that you're sitting under. We can get so caught up in our own personal pain or worries that we don't notice that the wind has come up or that somebody has put flowers on the diningroom table or that when we walked out in the morning, the flags weren't up, and that when we came back, they were flying. — Pema Chodron

A beautiful mind is filled with ideas and inventions — Martellis Thurmand

There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around. — Gillian Welch

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram ... — John Muir

I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting places to set my books. But as the characters come first, who they are will usually dictate where a book is set. — Kate Walker

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. — Leo Tolstoy

Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after. — Jimmy Smith

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight. — Anais Nin