Michalkowitz Quotes & Sayings

Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay here, until you acquire a force in you that nothing can destroy. Then you'll need to go back into life, and there you will measure yourself constantly with forces which will show you your place. — G.I. Gurdjieff

She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines) — Kate Chopin

She's also showing me behavior I've never even heard of, like passenger road rage. — Mary Williams

No one in my circle calls me 'Travis.' Even my family, at a young age started calling me 'Travie.' So I want people to feel comfortable calling me 'Travie.' It's almost like inviting people in. — Travie McCoy

The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become. — Novak Djokovic

The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First Class men. — Walter Lord

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it. — Michael Jordan

An unsolved problem bothers one's mind, just as a small stone in the shoe,until an idea for solving the problem comes to mind. — Eraldo Banovac

From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun