Izilda Gomes Quotes & Sayings

Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate. — Paul Stamets

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. — Mary Robinson

A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important. — G-Eazy

You might be a redneck if your 'huntin dog' cost more than the truck you drive him around in. — Jeff Foxworthy

One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Big's voice trumpets, as if from stage or pulpit; his words carry weight, even pass the salt comes out of his mouth in a thou-shalt-Ten-Commandments kind of way. — Jandy Nelson

However, if you're already inclined to both write and pray, you may as well figure out how they can help each other. — Ed Cyzewski

To conclude: having staid near four mouths in Hamburgh, I came from thence over land to the Hague, where I embarked in the packet, and arrived in London the tenth of January 1705, having been gone from England ten years and nine months. — Daniel Defoe

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. — John Milton

You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine. — Jay Samit

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood. — Dorothy L. Sayers

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth. — Richard G. Scott