Farfetched Mean Quotes & Sayings

I love Oprah to death. — Alexandra Wentworth

For instance, supposing that the planet earth were not a sphere but a gigantic coffee table,
how much difference in everyday life would that make? Granted, this is a pretty
farfetched example; you can't rearrange facts of life so freely. Still, picturing the planet
earth, for convenience sake, as a gigantic coffee table does in fact help clear away the
clutter - those practically pointless contingencies such as gravity and the international
dateline and the equator, those nagging details that arise from the spherical view. I mean,
for a guy leading a perfectly ordinary existence, how many times in the course of a
lifetime would the equator be a significant factor? — Haruki Murakami

Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing
Of hope and promise on dragonwing — Anne McCaffrey

Doffing the ego's
safe glory, he finds
his naked reality. — Dag Hammarskjold

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature". — Albert Einstein

In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time! — Danica Patrick

I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man's astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, 'you? — Ally Carter

I wish you'd wash your mind-ears out! Organazoomers. They're how you travel inside a soultree. Don't you know anything? — Katherine Roberts

Extraordinary creatures you young people are, altogether. The past you hate, the present you despise, and the future is a matter of indifference. How do you suppose that can lead to any good end? — Erich Maria Remarque

We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and a richness of heart, whether they achieve wide recognition or not. Cultivating such a beautiful mind is a very worthy effort. Culture and art are not just decorations. They are not just accessories. What matters is whether culture enriches the essential substance of our lives. — Daisaku Ikeda

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering. — Eckhart Tolle

Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine. — Steven Van Zandt

Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not. — Susan RoAne

Epsom salts. It felt wonderful. After massaging them with Vitamin E oil, Sue returned — Wodke Hawkinson

Couldn't be scathed. He was the crack in the system — Tim Dorsey