Geikie Life Quotes & Sayings

At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won. — Archibald Geikie

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. — Cunningham Geikie

Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It does make all men think at times; even the lightest and the worst. The distant days of our springtime, our faded summer, comes over us like a dream. We sit in the evening of our life in tender musings, and all that has been takes shadowy form again, and passes through the thoughts. — Cunningham Geikie

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it. — Billy Carter

As it turned out, almost every notion I had on my 13th birthday about my future turned out to be a total waste of my time. When I thought of myself as an adult, all I could imagine was someone thin, and smooth, and calm, to whom things ... happened. Some kind of souped-up princess with a credit card. I didn't have any notion about self-development, or following my interests, or learning big life lessons, or, most important, finding out what I was good at and trying to earn a living from it. I presumed that these were all things that some grown-ups would come along and basically tell me what to do about at some point, and that I really shouldn't worry about them. I didn't worry about what I was going to do. What I did worry about, and thought I should work hard at, was what I should be, instead. I thought all of my efforts should be concentrated on being fabulous, rather than doing fabulous things. — Caitlin Moran

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter. — Nicholas Royle

A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art. — Ray Price

A million years went by quick. — Carlton Fisk

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they? — Sid Vicious

the mouse, who was never so brave, jumped into the mouth of the cat, who was never so hungry. — Jose Prendes

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is. — Linwood Barclay

Not giving is no different than taking. — David Sedaris

I'm turning into a stricter dad. — David Duchovny

Mikolay had explored the big attic many times before, and he knew that his mummy misplaced boxes all the time.
Ah, I,don't really want a wand, um, that much. Can we go home now? Please? begged Julia as she walked toward the door.
But Mikolay grabbed her hand and whispered:Lets just see where the shadow is going and after that, we can go right home.
Mikolay and Julia carefully moved closer and closer to the wall. — Magda M. Olchawska