Forteller Quotes & Sayings

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The Eiffel Tower is nine hundred eighty-four feet high. On a clear day, you can see eighty-five miles from the top. It has three elevators. Each elevator can carry sixty-three people. It cost about one million dollars to build Eiffel Tower. — Suzy Kline

A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty. — Clive James

Just because something's the truth doesn't make it right. — Kimberly Belle

The Universe does not compensate individuals based on the activity of work, but on the activity of consciousness. — John Randolph Price

I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; / But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world. — Rumi

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway

He who in the midst of intense activity finds himself in the greatest calmness, and in the greatest peace finds intense activity, that is the greatest [Yogi as well as the wisest man] (note 2). — Swami Vivekananda

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. — Linda Lavin

It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out. — Stevie Wonder

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened. — James M. Barrie

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce ... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole. — Ai-jen Poo

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself. — Henry Ward Beecher

I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
MC's be out like bank robbers,
Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
DJ ... the getaway driver. — GZA