Galtons Theory Quotes & Sayings

The nostalgic is looking for a spiritual addressee. Encountering silence, he looks for memorable signs, desperately misreading them. — Svetlana Boym

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition. — Jessica Ennis

Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it. — Nick Flynn

It was not so much that he was shut out, but that she was trapped inside. — Kristen Heitzmann

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another. — Samuel Johnson

Old soldiers never die, they write novels. — James Jones

If you're healthy all around, you'll feel better, and if you feel better, you'll have a more positive outlook. It's all connected. — Bridget Moynahan

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa. — Barbara Kingsolver

You transfix me quite. — Charlotte Bronte

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. — Lillian Hellman

With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very first frame above a typical high school. — Rian Johnson

The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body ... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul. — Leonardo Da Vinci

So the whole conversation is going right off course. It's like a supermarket trolley with a wonky wheel, because all the time I'm thinking, this should be easy to push along, and everything I say just takes me in the wrong direction. — Nick Hornby