Hollow Blocks Quotes & Sayings

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi

I was a Valley girl; I hung out, and through a photographer friend. I met Peter Douglas, who was one of Kirk Douglas's kids. He introduced me to Sam Spiegel. — Theresa Russell

I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small. — James Frey

I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now. — Louise Hay

Refuse to be content with the knowledge of God. Insist on experiencing His presence. — John Paul Warren

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved. — Dean Koontz

But you no longer heard the song. You had gone away, my boy, into your tale. Did you know that you would never turn into a fish, that you would never reach Issyk-Kul, or see the white ship, or say to it: "Hello, white ship, it's I"?
You swam away. — Chingiz Aitmatov

The dark ages are obscure but they were not weird. Magicians there were, to be sure, and miracles. In the flickering firelight of the winter hearth, mead songs were sung of dragons and ring-givers, of fell deeds and famine, of portents and vengeful gods. Strange omens in the sky were thought to foretell evil times. But in a world where the fates seemed to govern by whimsy and caprice, belief in sympathetic magic, superstition and making offerings to spirits was not much more irrational than believing in paper money: trust is an expedient currency. There were charms to ward of dwarfs, water-elf disease and swarms of bees; farmers recited spells against cattle thieves and women knew of potions to make men more - or less - virile. Soothsayers, poets and those who remembered the genealogies of kings were held in high regard. The past was an immense source of wonder and inspiration, of fear and foretelling. — Max Adams

Weng lies in a hollow, buried among blocks of ice for millions of years. The roadsides favor promiscuity. — Thomas Bernhard

In the Fukien province of China, the Dutch learned the word tay, which means "tea" in the local dialect, and with this sound it was introduced to Europe. In fact, in Ireland and England it was pronounced tay until the start of the eighteenth century, after which the word was derived to tee and then tea - as we know it today. — Francis Amalfi

We keep waiting to be crowned,
Waiting for the world to judge us worthy of offering our brightest, most empowered and beautiful stuff.
But that won't happen.
Your next certification or ordination or degree will do nothing for your expression in the world until you accept how unspeakably worthy and valuable you already are to be here and share yourself with us. — Jacob Nordby

One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too. — Daniel Cormier

Poisonous toadstools don't change their spots. — J.K. Rowling