Liegenden Quotes & Sayings

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons. — Pema Chodron

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995. — Capers Jones

Wind slapped them against the cliff face, then yanked them outward in a biting swirl of airborne sand. — Steven Erikson

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day. — Roger Ebert

If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other. — Emily Yoffe

Ignore the whisper of fear, let your inner ability to take over because it's meant to be your guide. — Euginia Herlihy

He let out a short laugh. You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe? — James Dashner

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic. — Joss Whedon

I realized that if I went snowboarding, you can't think of anything else when you're snowboarding. You can't hesitate or think about anything other than not falling off and breaking your neck. If you want a holiday where you're not gonna think about work and you're not gonna think about anything, snowboarding is the best way to do it. Or skiing, I guess. I don't ski, so I don't know. — Simon Pegg

You see, my father was short, and my mother was short too. So was my grandparents, and my great grandparents - I come from a long lineage of short men and women - not one of us was above five feet. We were as tall as the Chinese. I know that sounded racist, but that will only be true if I was tall, so you see, being short has its own privileges. — Nick Nwaogu

In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly. — Joe Klein

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no lucture comparable to that of the garden. Sucha a variety of subjeccts, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the succes of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year. Under a total want of demand except for our family table, I am still devoted to the garden. — Thomas Jefferson

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass. — George Gissing

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off. — Albert Brooks

some people just can't take getting older, even though there's nothing more certain in life than dying itself — Lisa Ballantyne