Famous Hugh Prather Quotes & Sayings

Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument. — Ellen Goodman

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be. — J.B. Priestley

By nature, men love newfangledness. — Geoffrey Chaucer

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise? — Leontyne Price

Patterns of cloth busier than the makeup girl at a Kiss concert — Jim Butcher

Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow. — Gautam Adani

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church. — Jane Grey

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell. — Rod Stewart

To the extent that active germ-line replicators benefit from the survival of the bodies in which they sit, we may expect to see adaptations that can be interpreted as for bodily survival. A large number of adaptations are of this type. To the extent that active germ-line replicators benefit from the survival of bodies other than those in which they sit, we may expect to see 'altruism', parental care, etc. To the extent that active germ-line replicators benefit from the survival of the group of individuals in which they sit, over and above the two effects just mentioned, we may expect to see adaptations for the preservation of the group. — Richard Dawkins

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible. — Jodi Lynn Anderson