Cmicontent Quotes & Sayings

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. — Stephen King

Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies ... — Lauren Oliver

A foreign language can signify a total separation. It can represent, even today, the ferocity of our ignorance. To write in a new language, to penetrate its heart, no technology helps. You can't accelerate the process, you can't abbreviate it. The — Jhumpa Lahiri

Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As Spring revives the year,
And hails us with the cuckoo's song,
To show that she is here; — Alfred Austin

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance. — Edward Mills Purcell

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines. — David Walliams

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. — Henry Ward Beecher

Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow. — Valerie Cruz

The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino. - Joe Fox — Nora Ephron

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours. — Mark Doty