Harmondsworth Penguin Quotes & Sayings

Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the therapist helps one to 'release' the neck muscles, it is amazing to see quite pronounced movements for instance of the toes, even when one is lying on a couch. — Nikolaas Tinbergen

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. — Orison Swett Marden

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself. — Anthony Esolen

Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully. — Paul Clitheroe

The writers of Luke and Matthew, for instance, in seeking to make the life of Jesus conform to Old Testament prophecy, insist that Mary conceived as a virgin (Greek parthenos), harking to the Greek rendering of Isaiah 7:14. Unfortunately for fanciers of Mary's virginity, the Hebrew word alma (for which parthenos is an erroneous translation) simply means "young woman," without any implication of virginity. It seems all but certain that the Christian dogma of the virgin birth, and much of the church's resulting anxiety about sex, was the — Sam Harris

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: 'Why did success pass me by?' — Akhil Sharma

I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform. — Jose Carreras

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame. — William Shakespeare

Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about. — Julie Harris

Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future. — Sigurd F. Olson

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it. — Gene Wilder

The only time you start at the top is when you're digging a hole. — Sam Chand

I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad... — Pink Floyd

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters. — Joaquin Phoenix