Conkers Tree Quotes & Sayings

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie. — Hayden Panettiere

I looked at the back of Jessica's silky bent head and thought of those old stories where one twin is hurt and the other, miles away, feels the pain. I wondered if there had been a moment, during that giggly girls' night at Auntie Vera's, when she had made some small, unnoticed sound; if all the answers we wanted were locked away behind the strange dark gateways of her mind. — Tana French

It's important to be grateful for the gifts we have — Sarah Weeks

The warrior instinct comes in, the heart, determination, the will to win. Even though you're rocked you still have to fight hard, to come back. — Timothy Bradley

He threw up the conkers into the air in his great happiness. In the tree above him they disturbed a roosting crow, which erupted from the branches with an explosive bang of its wings, then rose up above him towards the sky, its harsh, ambiguous call coming back in long, grating waves towards the earth, to be heard by those still living. — Sebastian Faulks

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows. — Lisa Marie Presley

We are obsessed with sex, because those organisms who have this obsession leave behind many more copies of organisms with this obsession. — Hugh Howey

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself. — George F. Kennan

I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes and that's because I am passionate about the truth ... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans. — Richard Dawkins

Writing stories is a type of magic too. — Cornelia Funke

Paradoxes are the only truths. — George Bernard Shaw

Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections — Ryuho Okawa

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. — Robert Wilson

Sophia thought about the bathrobe more and more. The thing living in it was as quick as lightning but could lie in wait for days without moving. It could make itself thin and slide through a crack in the door, and then roll itself up again and crawl under the bed like a shadow. It didn't eat and never slept and hated everyone, most of all its own family. Sophia didn't eat either, that is, nothing but sandwiches. — Tove Jansson

There are no photographs while I'm reloading . — Garry Winogrand