Flikkema Aviaries Quotes & Sayings

Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you — Jennifer Donnelly

I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of. — Mark Billingham

With his head thrust forward like a ram, Baryba pushed his way through to the front. For some reason this was necessary, he felt with all his guts that it was necessary. He clenched his iron jaws. Something bestial stirred in him, something he hungered for, some murderous instinct. To be with everybody, to howl like everybody, to hit the one that everybody else was hitting. ("A Provincial Tale") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Folks say I'm good," he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, "but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones - like Mistress Blythe here - wouldn't show up so well. — L.M. Montgomery

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling - or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste. — Clement Greenberg

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday. — Aaron Neville

Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes. — Coco Rocha

We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that. — Teri Hatcher

To get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill. — Daniel Coyle

Renunciation without aversion is not lasting. — Mahatma Gandhi

You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms ... I once loved the whole world because you were in it. — Brunhilda Of Austrasia

We all fall in life The question is who gets back up! — Greg Plitt

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing — Winifred Holtby

Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability ... they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque. — Arthur Koestler