Flickery Quotes & Sayings

In every laugh, he hears her, in every tear, he sees her. Not a mere reflection, the complete 'her'. — Faraaz Kazi

You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense. — Chris Lytle

One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad. He told of Pain and Rain and Cold, He told of Darkness in his soul, And after he finished his tale of woe, Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no, They laughed until they shook the trees ... And while the world laughed outside. Cloony the Clown sat down and cried. — Shel Silverstein

I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem. — Andrew Wiles

And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full. — Ray Bradbury

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do ... being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself. — Sarah MacLean

And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it. — The Notorious B.I.G.

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could
every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath. — Stephen King

The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. — Marilyn Manson

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me. — Maria Semple

He was by no means expansive, and talked little indeed, but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different, from a sort of inner preoccupation entirely personal and unconcerned with other people, but so important to him that he seemed, as it were, to forget other on account of it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct. — Michel De Montaigne

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal. — Jim Butcher