Gutta Percha Quotes & Sayings

Something inside him shifted and came to rest, as if it had found its proper place. It was like one of his sister's wooden tumbling puzzles, like the satisfying click it made when all its many turning pieces were perfectly aligned. — Lena Goldfinch

Kids have too much money these days, if you ask me. — John Swartzwelder

My hero is Roger Federer. — Saina Nehwal

I don't go to the cinema much. — Tom Felton

Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell. — Robert Browning

In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,
if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,
and they are themselves so much the better morally for it. — Henry David Thoreau

Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning ... for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference. — Steve Goodier