Merian San Diego Quotes & Sayings

I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I understand her snobbism. Her priggishness. I admire it. I know she does wrong things, she tries to organize other people's lives, she can't see Mr Knightley is a man in a million. She's temporarily silly, yet all the time one knows she's basically intelligent. Creative, determined to set the highest standards. A real human being. — John Fowles

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work? — Steven Wright

The case of the general talk of "progress" is, indeed, an extreme one. As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. We meet every ideal of religion, patriotism, beauty, or brute pleasure with the alternative ideal of progress - that is to say, we meet every proposal of getting something that we know about, with an alternative proposal of getting a great deal more of nobody knows what. — G.K. Chesterton

Struggling isn't a sign of failure but of strength. Keep pushing, keep striving...your best is yet to come! — Kemi Sogunle

Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books. — Jane Lindskold

After about a minute, I received a text back.
Beck: I know
A few seconds later, a smiley face came through, and I had to laugh. A week or so ago, I'd told him that his texts were always so short and blunt.
"Couldn't you add a smiley face or something?" I'd asked.
He actually listened! A smug sense of victory swirled through me. He could be so stubborn about things that I could hardly believe it, even as the emoticon smiled up at me. — Cindi Madsen

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind — Gautama Buddha

I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going. — Laura Anne Gilman

You will never make the crab walk straight. — Aristophanes

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices. — Sarah Gadon

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. — Jacob Bronowski

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time. — Michael Crichton