Cloos Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Ollivander touched the lightning scar on Harry's forehead with a long, white finger. "I'm sorry to say I sold the wand that did it," he said softly. "Thirteen-and-a-half inches. Yew. Powerful wand, very powerful, and in the wrong hands ... well, if I'd known what that wand was going out into the world to do. — J.K. Rowling

personal power is directly tied to personal responsibility, which most people avoid. — Brendon Burchard

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty. — Hans Cloos

I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album. — Natalie Cole

I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion — Bangambiki Habyarimana

For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present. — Hans Cloos

They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution. — Rabindranath Tagore

It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily - the idea that geology is the music of the earth. — Hans Cloos

And snow - snow is not my enemy, I tell him. Snow is God's way of telling people to slow down and rest and stay in bed for a day. And besides, snow always solves itself. Mixes with the leaves to form more earth, I tell him. Think compost, says I. — Robert Fulghum

If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough. — John Irving

The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end. — Hans Cloos

Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well. — David S. Ware

We don't need any troops abroad-they don't help our defense. — Ron Paul

There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were. — Carrie Jones

[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the 'school' to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation 'the dialogue with the earth,' 'das Gesprach mit der Erde. — R.W. Van Bemmelen

I remember being a kid and trying to do make-up and being so bad at it - but my sister Kylie was so good. It came so naturally to her. For me, it was never natural. — Kendall Jenner

What kind of fanatical devotion would it take to maintain this depressing illusion? — Hugh Howey

The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences. — William H Gass

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck. — Erica Jong