Haukeland Hotel Quotes & Sayings

Plants began the process of land colonization about 450 million years ago, accompanied of necessity by tiny mites and other organisms which they needed to break down and recycle dead organic matter on their behalf. Larger animals took a little longer to emerge, but by about 400 million years ago they were venturing out of the water, too. Popular illustrations have encouraged us to envision the first venturesome land dwellers as a kind of ambitious fish - something like the modern mudskipper, which can hop from puddle to puddle during droughts - or even as a fully formed amphibian. In fact, the first visible mobile residents on dry land were probably much more like modern woodlice, sometimes also known as pillbugs or sow bugs. These are the little bugs (crustaceans, in fact) that are commonly thrown into confusion when you upturn a rock or log. — Bill Bryson

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.' — Jenny Lewis

His face was a ghost story: graveyard eyes, cheekbones as sharp as urban legends, a sealed-coffin mouth. — Allyse Near

And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph? — Michael Finkel

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. — George Eliot

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. — Helen Keller

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South. — Clarice Taylor

Sorrow makes us all children again-destroys all differences of intellect. the wisest know nothing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

His power is of a different breed. Where I am kinetic energy, he is potential. — Pierce Brown

I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down. — Jennette McCurdy

It was a good place to sit, and listen, under a sky that had seen so much and heard so much that one more wicked deed would surely make no difference. Sins, thought Mma Ramotswe, are darker and more powerful when contemplated within confining walls. Out in the open, under such a sky as this, misdeeds were reduced to their natural proportions - small, mean things that could be faced quite openly, sorted, and folded away. — Alexander McCall Smith