Hyperkinetic Heart Quotes & Sayings

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses
those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence. — Richard Ford

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was right when he claimed, 'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends up in folly.' Political activists are more inclined, though, to heed an observation from Richard Nixon: 'People react to fear, not love. They don't teach that in Sunday school, but it's true.' That principle, which guided the late president's political strategy throughout his career, is the sine qua non of contemporary political campaigning. Marketers of products and services ranging from car alarms to TV news programs have taken it to heart as well.

The short answer to why Americans harbor so many misbegotten fears is that immense power and money await those who tap into our moral insecurities and supply us with symbolic substitutes. — Barry Glassner

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry. — Bill Richardson

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. — George Orwell

I have absolutely nothing consistent in my life. But that's where serendipity comes in and I love that. One day I'm going to have to sacrifice that to bring life into the world. But the more I can hold off on that, the happier I'll be. It's scary for me. — Michelle Rodriguez

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart. — Thomas Brooks

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato. — Ana Beatriz Barros

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter. — Sam Rockwell

You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day. — Jon Krakauer

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood — Scott Westerfeld

Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong. — Soren Kierkegaard

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary. — Ashton Kutcher

My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future. — Saina Nehwal

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J.G. Holland