Cherrywood Quotes & Sayings

Ruut Veenhoven, keeper of the database, got it right when he said: "Happiness requires livable conditions, but not paradise." We humans are imminently adaptable. We survived an Ice Age. We can survive anything. We find happiness in a variety of places and, as the residents of frumpy Slough demonstrated, places can change. Any atlas of bliss must be etched in pencil. — Eric Weiner

Unconscious, perhaps, of the remote tendency of his own labours, he [Joseph Black] undermined that doctrine of material heat, which he seemed to support. For, by his advocacy of latent heat, he taught that its movements constantly battle, not only some of our senses, but all of them; and that, while our feelings make us believe that heat is lost, our intellect makes us believe that it is not lost. Here, we have apparent destructibility, and real indestructibility. To assert that a body received heat without its temperature rising, was to make the understanding correct the touch, and defy its dictates. It was a bold and beautiful paradox, which required courage as well as insight to broach, and the reception of which marks an epoch in the human mind, because it was an immense step towards idealizing matter into force. — Henry Thomas Buckle

A nightmare is a failed dream, a dream that, by not "handling" anxiety, has failed in its role as the guardian of sleep. — Irvin D. Yalom

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. — Rita Coolidge

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real. — Sidney Poitier

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. — Eliza Griswold

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine. — John G. Stumpf

I will meet the world's demands and win! — Bob Proctor

Many martial artists become fixated on "looking good" and learn only the external aspects of their art. They learn how the body moves during many flashy techniques. They assume that if one learns a given number of techniques, one deserves a certain rank. Obtaining rank becomes the goal instead of perfecting the art. — Dick Morgan

Whiteness is filthy. — Julien Torma

I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy. — Teju Cole

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. — Pedro Almodovar

Here, the name of the game was opulence. The floors were cherrywood, the tablecloths silk, and the guests sparkling with enough diamonds to send a Christmas tree into an epileptic seizure. — Ella Summers