Heide Quotes & Sayings

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat. — Wilma Scott Heide

Imagination is an instrument of survival. — Rogier Van Der Heide

eBay had also removed several listings for him and sent him a stern message regarding inappropriate postings. He thought something ridiculous had to come to pass when one was barred from selling animals, old ladies and contract killings over the internet. — Heide Goody

Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible! — Wilma Scott Heide

Trust a bloody angel to take four sentences and two Biblical references to say, 'bugger me, isn't there a lot of choice at Tesco. — Heide Goody

He had decided that if he ever returned to his old job he would create a special level of hell, an enormous inescapable shop of attractive but useless and overpriced items that the damned would wander for eternity in the cold delusion that this was what they wanted. And then Nerys had taken him to IKEA and Clovenhoof realised the humans had once again beaten him to it. — Heide Goody

We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light? — Rogier Van Der Heide

Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence. — Sunday Adelaja

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal. — Wilma Scott Heide

Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood ... women will continue to want and reproduce too many children. — Wilma Scott Heide

There is the idea that, when we look at things, it is the yellow light that helps us the most, that we are the most sensitive for. But our circadian rhythms, which are the rhythms that help us to wake and sleep and be alert and relaxed and so forth and so on, they are much more triggered by blue light. — Rogier Van Der Heide

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives. — Rogier Van Der Heide

By modulating the amount of blue in our environment, we can help people to relax, or to be alert; to fall asleep, or to stay awake. — Rogier Van Der Heide

Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces. — Chris Riddell

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. — Tacitus

Looks like someone will have to save him," said Brother Henry without much urgency. "Oh, Hell." Bastian gathered up the hem of his habit to disrobe. "Don't leap in after him," said Brother Lionel. "He'll drag you down. Well-documented fact. Best to save someone who's already unconscious. It's dangerous otherwise." "That's soon sorted," said Brother Henry, knelt up in the boat and raised one of the oars like a club. "Oi! Clement!" The drowning sacristan glanced upwards and Brother Henry struck downwards. — Heide Goody

Clovenhoof looked at the man critically. He wasn't what Clovenhoof regarded as a proper plumber. This young man's jeans were secured with a belt above the bum-crack line, there wasn't a cigarette poking out of the corner of his mouth or tucked behind his ear and, when he spoke to Clovenhoof, he didn't address him as 'guv'nor'. — Heide Goody

Remember Sodom and Gomorrah? A city destroyed because some of the men were gay!" "Now, you weren't there, Andy." "And you were?" "No," Michael lied, "but it really wasn't about sexuality. — Heide Goody

I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house. — Wilma Scott Heide

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. — Doris Lessing

The incapable educational system, my mother and I were embroiled in a vicious cycle of negativity. We all suffered greatly because we were all products of an inexperienced, underdeveloped and misunderstood thought process inherited from a completely corrupt and unjust educational system. I was unloved by my peers because I'd inherited an attitude of fear, pessimism and negativity that could have simply been avoided if our system recognised that we are all products of our environment and have subsequently come from different places, perspectives and circumstances. — K.A. Hill

The goal of evolution is self - conquest — Elbert Hubbard

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house. — Estelle

There has also been the problem of the disquieting rumblings from my gut. I had a fearful prescience that something truly foul and hellish wishes to escape my fundament. I fight it as I would fight the very devil (who lives in the flat above) and so far I have managed to quell and contain my riotous innards. — Heide Goody

How is it possible that anyone can believe in a kind of God of Evil named Satan or Devil? Surely, evil lies within oneself. — Ralph P. Vander Heide

For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN. — Connie Chung

We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood. — Wilma Scott Heide

There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing. — Rogier Van Der Heide

She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people. — Ernest Hemingway,

Herr Vogel from Heide Strasse. Made all his money from his father. He throws it away on women — Markus Zusak

Pie in a bed of raw onions. Human skull looking put-upon.
Howl — Diana Wynne Jones