Hildur Isabella Quotes & Sayings

If you are brave, you will open the book and read it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place. — Patrick Modiano

You can stretch to your fullest in this land, Emma, and not touch any edges. There's no dream too big for the wilderness. I'd hate to see it tamed and carved up into little fiefdoms. — Alice Valdal

The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners. — Bill Walsh

The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have. — Wayne Dyer

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys. — Al Yankovic

I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air — Gunnar Staalesen

War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sad joy of maintaining our one-dimensional worlds. — Joan D. Chittister

Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic. — Ian Dury

I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander," he whispered in her ear. "And you were worth every second of it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true. — Daniel Wallace

And forget all about the fact that my father is human and makes awful choices like the rest of us — Colleen Hoover

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known ... The "animal scientist" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science. — Wendell Berry

That's how they work, though. They don't try to convince you of anything. They make you doubt what you know. Make you jump to the wrong conclusions yourself. — David Jacob Knight