Henske Yester Quotes & Sayings

How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever? — J.K. Rowling

The rook is a skilled survivor. He is ancient and has inhabited the planet longer than humans. This you can tell from his singing voice: his cry is harsh and grating, made for a more ancient world that existed before the innovation of the pipe, the lute, and the viol. Before music was invented he was taught to sing by the planet itself. He mimicked the great rumble of the sea, the fearsome eruption of volcanoes, the creaking of glaciers, and the geological groaning as the world split apart in its agony and remade itself. — Diane Setterfield

Blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream. — Louis MacNeice

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you. — RZA

Life is the spirit incarnate in time. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Are you guys, like, in love? Brian asked in a girl voice.
Alexis and Jason locked stares because even though everyone had started laughing at Brian's jibe, the word was there, hanging between the two of them, waiting to be grabbed for their personal use. — Lindsay Chamberlin

Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing — Justin Somper

Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies. — Edward James Olmos

Real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful. Your — Oscar Wilde

To these he added two 'intermediate modifications': cirro-cumulus and cirro-stratus; and two compound modifications: cumulo-stratus and cumulo-cirro-stratus. This final modification was more colloquially known as the nimbus or rain cloud. From — Peter Moore

If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun. — Elliott Smith

I think that I'm a pretty great producer, but the vision behind Batman is Chris Nolan. I'm there to do my best to help execute that vision, and I think I do a really good job, but the vision is Chris Nolan. — Charles Roven