Karumba Queensland Quotes & Sayings

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract. — Bruce Jackson

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. [Fermat's] Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this. — Andrew John Wiles

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse. — Jo Brand

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'. — Beatrix Potter

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. — Robert Motherwell

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst. — Mark Twain

The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause. — Lord Chesterfield

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix. — Kirk Hammett

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture. — Horace

Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power. — Bell Hooks