Degutis Gyvunas Quotes & Sayings

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face. — Thomas Adams

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. — Euripides

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed. — Jack Palance

The human facility for perceiving speech begins very young: small babies have been shown to prefer the sounds of speech to nonspeech sounds. It is a fascinating paradox that humans can hear only up to fifteen different non-speech sounds per second, and beyond this they hear unremitting noise. Yet when they decode speech, they hear twenty to thirty distinct sounds per second. Somehow human speakers can pack, and in turn unpack, almost twice as many sounds if those sounds consist of consonants and vowels that are the components of the language they speak. — Christine Kenneally

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ... — Gillian Roberts

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before. — Peter Maxwell Davies

Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple. Now whether or not these things have one iota to do with your story doesn't concern the reader. — Ron Rozelle