Gizmos Student Quotes & Sayings

There is little joy in those first moments of recognition- for the reality is that most encounters of such depth, most first glances of love come to nothing. And while the sincerity of that rare moment when your heart is bursting should be the signal to fling yourself on the ground in the path of this stranger, it's the depth of such sincerity that paralyses you, holds you back from the silence of phrases like "hello" and "good morning."
And as they pass, granting only single, torturous details like fingers upon the handle of an umbrella, or a hair pin bearing the weight of a twist, or a wool collar beaded with pearls of rain- there is only one thing you could ever say that would be true, that would make them stop walking and turn to face you.
But such a thing is unsayable. — Simon Van Booy

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair. — Oliver Goldsmith

In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What can be attained? If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time. If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us. — Ryokan

I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary. — Bonnie Wright

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing... — Charles Dickens

What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans? — Solange Nicole

Herbs and Seasonings Considered Safe For Dogs: Alfalfa Aloe Vera Anise Burdock Basil Calendula Catnip Caraway Seed Chamomile Cinnamon Cilantro Coriander — Elizabeth A. Patterson

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. — Amiri Baraka

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me. — Drew Brees

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything. — Betsy Byars

I love folk; that's a big part of my background. — Amy Lee

Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration. — Abigail Tarttelin

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head. — Jamaica Kincaid