Fwoosh Quotes & Sayings

Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people. — Nostradamus

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline. — Peter Drucker

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring to it, that they've developed on their own and that is singular to them. — Rick Heinrichs

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. — Florence King

Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming. — James Hansen

Yes,' she said, in a faraway voice, 'he was my husband, but he was much more than that. He was my best friend, my partner in grammar, and the only person I knew who could whistle with crackers in his mouth. — Lemony Snicket

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one. — Nick Harkaway

It's not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It's the good ones. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Establishing good habits means that you use your willpower reserves for the truly important stuff. — Carrie Willard

I've always strived to be successful, not famous. — Taylor Swift

We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, and children ... Where nobody dies ... In my worlds people died. And I thought I was being honest. I thought I was being honest. — Neil Gaiman

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith. — Kenneth Scott Latourette

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty. — Charles Richet

If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not to notice the sunrise,or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. — Madeleine L'Engle

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza