Kauri Tree Quotes & Sayings

For my part, whether sailing in cruiser or dinghy, I shall remain myself. My sails are not puffed out with the north wind in my favour, nor am I beating into the southern gales of affliction. — Horace

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. — Nicholas Butler

If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars wherof one might haply achieve her purpose. — Annie Dillard

On the drive up here, I saw a goose," he says. "A Canada goose. Fred told me they shit something horrible. They migrate between the north and the south, don't they? Like seniors. — Brian Francis

In real life, Snow White stays dead and Rapunzel grows old, alone in her tower. In real life, you gotta have enough sense to stay away from ugly bitches offering you shiny apples and have enough balls to cut off your own hair and use it as a ladder if needs be. In real life, you gotta save yourself and the only happy endings are the ones paid for in massage parlors. — Amy Sumida

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations. — F Scott Fitzgerald

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems. — Wallace Stevens

I don't have an accent. Northerners just talk funny. — Lili St. Crow

A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals
that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign. — Zadie Smith

The little I know I owe to my ignorance. — Sacha Guitry

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time. — Fran Tarkenton

Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them. — Margaret Silf

I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been. — Mamie Van Doren