Colliding Plates Quotes & Sayings

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say. — Haki R. Madhubuti

The day had, in fact, reached that gentle point when it was too late for housebreaking and too early for burglary. — Terry Pratchett

Katherine. Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is like me.
KING HENRY. An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
KATHERINE. Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges? — William Shakespeare

He began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone. — Daniel Quinn

Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats. — John Sununu

My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word. — Shahla Khan

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one. — Alain Prost

Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven; the brightest oriole fades into leaves. — Annie Dillard

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging. — Emma Bonino

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells. — William Faulkner