Dashthreads Quotes & Sayings

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents. — Betty Hart

You know what just seeing him did to me." "I know. Lois, he just isn't that ominous. Evil, but not ominous. Sly, but not prescient. Once he is off balance, he will stay off balance, and fall heavily. And the law will gather him in. — John D. MacDonald

Free people write books," it said. "Free people publish books. Free people sell books. Free people buy books. Free people read books. In the spirit of America's commitment to free expression we inform the public that this book will be available to readers at bookshops and libraries throughout the country. — Salman Rushdie

People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it. — Bob Dylan

Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. — Paul Kurtz

We'll take up where we left off, Esther', she had said, with her sweet martyr's smile. 'We'll act as if all this were a bad dream.'
A bad dream.
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
A bad dream.
I remembered everything. — Sylvia Plath

No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety. — Max De Pree

Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it. — James Rozoff

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. — George Burns

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life. — Eckhart Tolle

To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface. — Ellen Stofan