Collingwoods Gemstones Quotes & Sayings

The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light. — Virginia Woolf

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. — Charles Dickens

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment. — Friedrich Schiller

Long ago it took a Copernicus to tell a provincial world that this planet was not the center of the universe. Some selfish moderns need a Copernican reminder that they are not the center of the universe either! — Neal A. Maxwell

Wei is like an enigma wrapped in a puzzle hidden in the most intricate maze of the world — Michele Amitrani

And, of course, afterwards
one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before
we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week! — Agatha Christie

I don't have any secret sauce and I'm no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier. — Howard Schultz

Ms. D. through the front door and up to the main office, where the interview — James Patterson

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty-the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak? — Robert Green Ingersoll

For Beatrice, our love broke my heart,
and stopped yours. — Lemony Snicket

See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens. — Philip James Bailey

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means. — Jackson Pollock

In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just "write" with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists? — Noah Lukeman

Not every age is fit for childish sports. — Plautus