Headon Tower Quotes & Sayings

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated. — Horace Mann

Beauty is like piety
you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. — Herman Melville

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different. — George Bernard Shaw

Misery offers; society accepts — Victor Hugo

Today bursty search patterns explain an amazingly wide range of behavioral phenomena, from how people recall facts stored in their memory to how they locate information on the World Wide Web. In publication after publication, scientists have offered evidence that the most effective strategy for locating a given target is not the one that is the most obvious, systematic, and regular but a search strategy that is bursty, intermittent, and even haphazard. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother. — Elizabeth Gould Davis

... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix. — J.P. Donleavy

No sharing a tent because you say you have to protect me or stuff like that, okay? — Annie Seaton

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music. — Jesse Spencer

Play it fuckin' loud! — Bob Dylan

Knowledge, Humboldt believed, had to be shared, exchanged and made available to everybody. — Andrea Wulf

When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've done so much for me already & I haven't been particularly grateful. — Flannery O'Connor

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill. — Myrtle Reed

Fate rushes down upon us! The time drags and the days plod past, lulling us into thinking that the doom we fear will always so delay. Then, abruptly, the dark days we have all predicted are upon us, and the time when we could have turned dire fate aside has passed. How old must I be before I learn? There is no time; there is never any time. Tomorrow may never come, but todays are linked inexorably in a chain, and now is always the only time we have to divert disaster. — Robin Hobb