Hirondelles Quotes & Sayings

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. — William Westmoreland

Desire wasn't the only thing between us. There was so much more: forgiveness, acceptance, relief, and most importantly, love. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me. — Gerard Way

we humans have a penchant for complicating stuff that probably shouldn't be all that complicated. — Jayne Castle

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing. — Leo Tolstoy

Space exploration is inherently dangerous. If my focus ever wavers in the classroom or during an eight-hour simulation, I remind myself of one simple fact: space flight might kill me. — Chris Hadfield

Permit your dreams to see the daylight. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. — Lionel Blue

She can't say no if she's unconscious. — Zach Braff

If you think only sunshine brings you happiness, then you have not danced in the rain — Unknown

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. — Emma Goldman

There are moments in history that seem like a mist, as if what really happens matters less that what should have happened. The mists lift suddenly and there we are, my good parents and their good children, their grateful children who phone for no reason but to talk, say their good-nights with a kiss, and look forward to home on the holidays. I see how, in a family like mine, love doesn't have to be earned and it can't be lost. Just for a moment I see us that way; I see us all. Restored and repaired. Reunited. Refulgent. — Karen Joy Fowler

The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time. — Astro Teller

How can one find the first moment of love? When,in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue? — Susan Abulhawa