Hawksley England Quotes & Sayings

Zion smelled of cooked vegetables, humanity, and ganja. — William Gibson

I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something. — Simon Sinek

But what I hope for in a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer. — Anne Tyler

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses! — Martha Ostenso

Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird. — Alan Feduccia

It seems as though there is something going wrong with me," she thought from time to time through — Anton Chekhov

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport. — Lionel Shriver

If you have a problem with someone you have to go after them, and it's not necessarily to teach that person a lesson, it's to teach all the people that are watching a lesson that you don't take crap, and if you do take crap, you're just not going to well — Donald Trump

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with. — Thomas A. Edison

The light enkindled by human kindness and love can give human life a brilliance and luster that will never be extinguished. — Steve Centola

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. — Beatrix Potter

We're all going to die, Johnny. Hit the iron bell like it's dinnertime. — Cheryl Strayed

The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one
in this case an attempt by a beleaguered mind to make sense out of the inscrutable. Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensible events occur; your life becomes a bin for hoax-like fluctuations of what used to be reality. And not only that
as if that weren't enough
but you, like Fat, ponder forever over these fluctuations in an effort to order them into a coherency, when in fact the only sense they make is the sense you impose on them, out of necessity to restore everything into shapes and processes you can recognize. The first thing to depart in mental illness is the familiar. And what takes its place is bad news because not only can you not understand it, you also cannot communicate it to other people. The madman experiences something, but what it is or where it comes from he does not know. — Philip K. Dick

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive. — Karen Marie Moning

The accent is a really hard thing for me. It reminds me of my family and my childhood, but it's one of the worst-sounding accents out there. I love Boston, but we sound like idiots. — Amy Poehler