Cockers Across Pa Quotes & Sayings

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six. — Simon Newcomb

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster. — Loren Weisman

I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff. — Bun E. Carlos

The clear light of the library was slanting in through the glass-paneled doorway to my right, falling on the table between my tutor and me and on dust motes hung in the air. The tiny flecks drew my eye, and I watched as they dipped and swirled in invisible currents.
"They are beautiful in the light, are they not?" my tutor asked. They were, catching the sun and shining like tiny stars themselves.
"You know, there are just as many outside the sun's rays that are invisible," she said. Then, in the way of dreams, she lifted her hand into the air and moved a single dust mote into the light. "And you?" she asked. She lifted her hand again, just beyond the edge of the light, and I knew she held another mote and could move it as easily into the way of the sun, and I said, "No, thank you. I am content where I am. — Megan Whalen Turner

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning. — Laozi

A similar concern about using the web to provide just-in-time information shows up among physicians arguing the future of medical education. Increasingly, and particularly while making a first diagnosis, physicians rely on handheld databases, what one philosopher calls "E-memory." The physicians type in symptoms and the digital tool recommends a potential diagnosis and suggested course of treatment. Eighty-nine percent of medical residents regard one of these E-memory tools, UpToDate, as their first choice for answering clinical questions. But will this "just-in-time" and "just enough" information teach young doctors to organize their own ideas and draw their own conclusions? — Sherry Turkle

Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand. — Samuel Goldwyn

Our minds are a lot like our rear-ends. Sometimes they are constipated, other times stricken with mental diarrhea, and occasionally a little bubbly. However, none of these and all of these conditions define our rear-ends or our personalities. Could contentment come from accepting all of our rocks, rumbles and runs? — Maximus Freeman

I've got the backing of the most powerful mind-fucker in the land. You've got dead friends. See the difference? — K.F. Breene

Where there is love, there is joy. — Mother Teresa

I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me. — Anne Frank

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren't willing to be changed by the ritual, don't do it. — Starhawk

Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in. — Frederick Lenz

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying. — T. S. Eliot

We all get so afraid. We need to be brave. — Nina LaCour