Colclough Pond Quotes & Sayings

I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day. — Russell Wilson

Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though. — Patrick W. Carr

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong

When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your own reflexive truths. — Catherine Brady

To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be translated. — Marcel Proust

A QUESTION OF SALARY Santa was filling up an application form for a job. He was not sure as to what to put in the column 'Salary Expected'. After much thought he wrote : 'Yes, please. — Khushwant Singh

Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self. — Sebastian Faulks

What you are saying is true of those who want everything to give way to them, nothing to oppose them, everything to go their way, people to obey them without comment or delay and, in a manner of speaking, to be adored. — Vincent De Paul

There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills. — Karen Marie Moning

We are the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men. — Michael Ondaatje

Now she took a close look at me for the first time, puffing on her pipe while the old woman beside her sighed. I didnt feel I could look at Mother directly, but I had the impression of smoke seeping out of her face like steam from a crack in the earth. I was so curious about her that my eyes took on a life of their own and began to dart about. The more I saw of her, the more fascinated I became. Her kimono was yellow, with willowy branches bearing lovely green and orange leaves; it was made of silk gauze as delicate as a spiders web. Her obi was every bit as astonishing to me. It was a lovely gauzy texture too, but heavier-looking, in russet and brown with gold threads woven through. The more I looked at her clothing, the less I was aware of standing there in that dirt corridor, or of wondering what had become of my sister and my mother and father and what would become of me. — Arthur Golden

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing. — Ford Madox Ford

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness — Deepak Chopra

Each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex motions in space-time by splitting and recombining, a large number of highly sophisticated mathematical identities must be satisfied. These are precisely the mathematical identities discovered by Ramanujan. — Michio Kaku

Remember you are the perfect reflector of your mind. — Richmond Akhigbe