Grumbly Stomach Quotes & Sayings

The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it. — Youssou N'Dour

I'd tell him, though. Soon. Soonish.
Eventually. — Kiersten White

To experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself ... the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone. — Joanne Greenberg

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up. — Salman Rushdie

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us. — Denis Waitley

Let them think you a demon or a god," she said. "Let them fear you. It does not
matter."
"It matters a great deal to me," he snapped. — Victoria Schwab

The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue. — Thomas Hardy

Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether. — Alan Huffman

I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John)
I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake) — Laurell K. Hamilton

Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney? — Eddie Izzard

Happiness is an inner perception. It comes from simplicity, kindness, love, and compassion. — Debasish Mridha

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology. — William J. Clinton

The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations. — Daniel Dennett

If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision. — Walter B. Pitkin

Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way. — Gary Numan