Grand Prismatic Quotes & Sayings

I know because when I offered to help you move in you looked at me like you were just waiting for the punch line to a joke I wasn't telling. And that's what bullies do to people. They don't just hurt you or make you feel bad for five minutes in high school . They create the backbone of every friendship you try to have from then on. They change your life forever. — Charlotte Stein

Nothing us normal. — Ned Vizzini

It's fantastic that 'Strictly' is beating 'The X Factor' for many reasons - but one of the main reasons is I think it's a fantastic piece of variety television. It is live, varied TV whereby we are really hanging ourselves out by the seam of our pants. — Colin Salmon

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous. — John Jewel

Places have their own characters ... But the people begin to look the same. — Joanne Harris

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. — Richard Russo

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow ... I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. — Barbara Kingsolver

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them — Lev S. Vygotsky

Why is it that we are constantly proving the world wrong but never proving ourselves right? — Girl234

Safe? The word still feels so foreign to me. Nothing like the word fear. Fear is like air. — Jessica Sorensen

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit - for any season - sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us. - Dan B. Allender, PhD — Dan B. Allender

For all its imagined moments, literature works in unimaginable ways. — Colum McCann