Circeinstitute Quotes & Sayings

Long walks are off, and alas, bathing in the sea; fillet steaks and apples and raw blackberries (teeth difficulties) and reading fine print. But there is a great deal left. Operas and concerts, and reading, and the enormous pleasure of dropping into bed and going to sleep, and dreams of every variety. Almost best of all, sitting in the sun
gently drowsing and there you are again
remembering.
I remember, I remember, the house where I was born ... — Agatha Christie

Feel the needs of others more than your own. — Haile Selassie

You have fewer than 1,000 Saturdays with each child in your care before they're grown up. — Laura Vanderkam

They asked a bunch of ninety-five-year-olds, I don't know where they found them all, Florida I guess, but anyway they asked them if they could do it all over again and live their life again what would they do differently. The three things that almost all of them said were: (1) They would reflect more. Enjoy more moments. More sunrises and sunsets. More moments of joy. (2) They would take more risks and chances. Life is too short not to go for it. (3) They would have left a legacy. Something that would live on after they die. — Jon Gordon

I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.' — Tyler James Williams

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed. — Denis Diderot

Lady Margaret believed in the three D's: Discipline, Desire, and Determination. But as she listened dutifully to her new employer, hiding her yawns and trying to sit up extra straight in her chair, Charity Hill began thinking of all the lovely things that began with S, such as Sleeping Late, Sex, and Shopping. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas. — George Polya

It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since. — Cady Groves

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations. — Sol LeWitt

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy. — Benjamin Disraeli

Buying is a profound pleasure. — Simone De Beauvoir