Escorpion Quotes & Sayings

Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. — Stephen King

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you. — Alan Snow

Melancholy is no bad thing. — Sting

Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as if the teachings were something completely apart from daily life. Often, at the bottom of all this, there is an attitude of giving up and running away from one's own problems, with the illusion that one will be able to find something that will miraculously help one to transcend all that. But the teachings are based on the principle of our actual human condition. We have a physical body with all its various limits: each day we have to eat, work, rest, and so on. This is our reality, and we can't ignore it. — Namkhai Norbu

The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. We like sympathy and we like to be in company. It is easier than going it alone. But alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well as enjoy it all your life. — Robert Henri

So far so good. I had a recently widowed mother and her orphaned son crying hysterically. Maybe for an encore I could shoot the family dog. — Robert B. Parker

If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America. — Stephen Elop

The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we'd all loosen up and we wouldn't need the United Nations. — Humphrey Bogart