Meanderings Blog Quotes & Sayings

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child. — Jason Mraz

It looked like someone had taken sidewalk chalk and smudged the colors across the sky with their fingers. — R.J. Palacio

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course. — Charles M. Schwab

Moffat's prose is fine: clear and steady, with just enough sweeping statements about destiny and dragons to keep things well inflated. The characters are appealing archetypes: Fernwen the scholarly dwarf is the everynerd, doing his best to live through the adventure. Telemach Half-Blood is the hero you wish you could be. He always has a plan, always has a solution, always has secret allies that he can call upon - pirates and sorcerers whose allegiance he earn with long-ago sacrifices. — Robin Sloan

We are human because we can fantasize. — John Medina

There is no realism without an element of idealism. — Henry A. Kissinger

I love 'X Factor,' and I love Sharon: she's brilliant. — Katie Price

I once yearned for love like everyone else, but it was the lack of love that made me realize that, by opening my heart to people, I was allowing them to weaken me. I was allowing them to take parts of me until all that was left was a girl with nothing else to give, with nothing inside of her but broken dreams. — Mia Asher

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me. — Robert T. Bakker