Funny Geo Metro Quotes & Sayings

The indications which tell your dry fly angler when to strike are clear and unmistakable, but those which bid a wet fly man raise his rod-point and draw in the steel are frequently so subtle, so evanescent and impalpable to the senses, that, when the bending rod assures him that he has divined aright, he feels an ecstacy as though he had performed a miracle each time. — G. E. M. Skues

I squeezed my hands into fists, and I hoped as hard as I knew how — Neil Gaiman

According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God." They greet her countless times each day with the angelic greeting, "Hail, Mary", while prostrating themselves before her, begging her as a favour to honour them with one of her requests. According to St. Augustine, even St. Michael, though prince of all the heavenly court, is the most eager of all the angels to honour her and lead others to honour her. At all times he awaits the privilege of going at her word to the aid of one of her servants. — Louis De Montfort

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers. — Marianne Moore

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children. — Ariel Gore

Have all beautiful things sad destinies? — Jean Rhys

The truth often sounds paradoxical. — Laozi

Let us begin by giving all proper respect to what neuroscience can tell us about ourselves: it reveals some of the most important conditions that are necessary for behavior and awareness. What neuroscience does not do, however, is provide a satisfactory account of the conditions that are sufficient for behavior and awareness ... The pervasive yet mistaken idea that neuroscience does fully account for awareness and behavior is neuroscientism, an exercise in science-based faith ... This confusion between necessary and sufficient conditions lies behind the encroachment of "neuroscientistic" discourse on academic work in the humanities ... — Raymond Tallis

Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N'bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it. — Common

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better. — Stewart Stafford

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Awakening into love is a lifelong path. — David Simon

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion — Rene Guenon

Till her appointed course be run;
Till on the darkness faint her breath
Flown to the silent void, and Death
Sit crowned upon the ashen sun.
("The Testimony of the Suns") — George Sterling