Jumbo Fumiko Quotes & Sayings

Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner, and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through the newspaper determined to find certain job advertisements and, as a result, miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there, rather than just what they are looking for. — Richard Wiseman

Make someone else do it... and the job is done"
The shouty man. (Jim Howick)Horrible Histories. — C.G. Hassack

Petulia's expression didn't change for a while. Then she said: 'So it WAS a fairy, then?'
'Well, yes. Technically.'
The round pink face smiled.
'Good, I did wonder, because it was, um, you know ... having a wee up against one of Miss Level's garden gnomes?'
'DEFINITELY a Feegle,' said Tiffany. — Terry Pratchett

Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness. — Santosh Kalwar

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part. — John Deacon

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it; — Mark Twain

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging. — Art Garfunkel

Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening — Jean G. Boulton

For anybody living out their twenties, Sex and Career remain major topics: being sexy can help give you a career, and having a career can make others finally find you sexier. — Allan Gurganus

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them. — C.S. Friedman

If you're not where you want to be, it's because you're not who you need to be right now. — Eric Thomas

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am. — Anonymous

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them? — Charles Bradlaugh

What one person takes away from a book might be very different from what the next person takes away
almost as if the story is altered depending on who's reading, where, and when. But then, maybe all books are like that
a little different each time they are opened. The real question is who's doing the changing: the story, or the reader. — Jodi Picoult