Griffey Eye Quotes & Sayings

Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in. — Valerie Solanas

Now, the tourist hot spots of the city were the very parts that made it like everywhere else. Was it possible to imagine those buildings without inhaling the animal-fat stink of McDonald's or KFC? He never thought London would cease to appeal to him, but the little faded glory it still possessed was being scuffed away by the dead hand of globalization. On his down days he saw London as a crumbling ancient house, slowly collapsing under the weight of its own past. — Christopher Fowler

If there are words for all the pastels in a hue - the lavenders, mauves, fushsias, plums, and lilacs - who will name the tones and tints of a smell? It's as if we were hypnotized en masse and told to selectively forget. It may be, too, that smells move us so profoundly, in part, because we cannot utter their names. In a world sayable and lush, where marvels offer themselves up readily for verbal dissection, smells are often right on the tip of our tongues - but no closer - and it gives them a kind of magical distance, a mystery, a power without a name, a sacredness. — Diane Ackerman

I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger. — Edgar Meyer

Some incredible bit of magic got into my corner of the universe, and i have to trust in the universe that it's happening for a reason — Alexandra Potter

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do. — Maurissa Tancharoen

thrilled by the dark look of desire. She thrived on men's desire for her. It made the sexual high that much greater — Jasmine Haynes

It wasn't because I didn't think horses were beautiful, majestic creatures, the pinnacle of animal creation, etc., etc. - it's just that I didn't believe any animal had the slightest interest in being mounted or ridden by a human being. — Ransom Riggs

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don't seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don't seem to know how to put it back where it belongs. — Mira Grant

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry. — Gerry Geek

How could I wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different. — Stephanie Perkins

The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead! — Israelmore Ayivor

Christian Grey, expect the unexpected - fifty shades of fucked-up. — E.L. James