Mellifluent Quotes & Sayings

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits. — Bernard Moitessier

eidetic memory. What else any of it meant to — Jane Smiley

I've stripped my life down," he told me. "I don't need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here." He shot himself in the head with his fingers. "People don't understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they'll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there's nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars. — Holly Black

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered. — Ivan Van Sertima

To answer a popular question, if we define sound as traveling fluctuations in air pressure, then yes, a tree falling in the woods with no one nearby does indeed make a sound. If we define sound to be the electrical signal transmitted by the mechanisms of our inner ears to our brains, then no, that tree falling in the woods makes no sound. — Richard G. Lyons

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do. — Viola Davis