Firulais Quotes & Sayings

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature. — Henry David Thoreau

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted. — Jill Scott

No doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car. — Shaun David Hutchinson

In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So my parents just thought I was going to be one of those kids. I was like, "I'm never going to make a living at whatever I do." I just liked pretty things. — Jason Wu

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state. — Thomas Carlyle

She couldn't quite see herself in it. When they were done, I read the Shakespeare sonnet that begins "Fear no more the heat o' the Sun," partly because it was appropriate to the occasion and one of the most beautiful poems in the language, but also because I hoped it might hide from my loved ones the fact that I myself had nothing to say, that while part of me was here with them on this beloved shore, another part was wandering, as it had been for months, in a barren, uninhabited landscape not unlike the one in my dream. I realized I'd felt like this for a while. Though life had gone on since my mother's death - Kate had gotten married, I'd finally published another book and gone on tour with it - some sort of internal-pause button had been pushed, allowing another part of me, one I'd specifically kept sequestered to deal with my mother, to fall silent. Since her death, Barbara and I had gone through all her things and settled her affairs, but we'd barely spoken of her. — Richard Russo

Both boys stayed very quiet for a few minutes, neither one wanting to say anything he might regret. — John Boyne

You should know how to work hard but also enjoy the work. — Olena Vitrychenko

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me. — Marsha Norman

My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman. — Demi Lovato

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see. — Paul Strand

I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and locate them quickly is from satellites. — Sarah Parcak

Gideon and Gabriel," said Tessa. "They're really quite good-looking, not hideous at all. — Cassandra Clare

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation ... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place. — Eric Jerome Dickey

I need to live like the trees in my front yard: accepting, selfless, bending and grounded. — Michelle Colston