Gramps Miami Quotes & Sayings

There wasn't a second that passed when you weren't on my mind. You own me, Eva. Wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, I belong to you. — Sylvia Day

Then it's just day by day. And most days are beautiful, Don. It's regretting yesterday or overthinking tomorrow, that's when ugliness comes in, right? — Dean Bakopoulos

What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough ... IF you understand God's grace — Carl Lentz

Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. — Jordan Ellenberg

It had been a morning of vivid images: the man-made streams, the rats in the butchers' shops, the stacks of new-minted silver pennies, and then the woman's private parts. For a while, he knew, those pictures would come back to him to unsettle his meditations. — Ken Follett

Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become a quantifiable religious experience, which means it's not any fun! — Frederick Lenz

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism. — P. J. O'Rourke

I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it. — Anthony Hopkins

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? — Bertrand Russell

Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together. — Hunter S. Thompson

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used. — Haruki Murakami

I wasn't destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one. — Chris Hadfield

I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation. — Vandana Shiva

Silence sweeter is than speech. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The world is not a 'thing' (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul. — Dada Bhagwan