Minikino Quotes & Sayings

I understood. I have understood. I do understand. — Isaac Newton

Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning. — John Ratey

The books [poetry collections] may not sell, but neither are they given away or thrown away. They tend, more than other books, to fall apart in their owners' hands. Not I suppose good news in a culture and economy built on obsolescence. But for a book to be loved this way and turned to this way for consolation and intense renewable excitement seems to me a marvel. — Louise Gluck

Other response, he said, I make thee not,
Except the doing; for the modest asking
Ought to be followed by the deed in silence. — Dante Alighieri

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. — Jonathan Swift

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else. — Jonny Greenwood

Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold? — Karen Elizabeth Gordon

You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it. — Sabaa Tahir

And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed and cries to Time. — Oscar Wilde

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. — David Lloyd George

The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required. — Bill Dedman

She'd also called me brave ... unless she was talking to the catfish. — Rick Riordan

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio. — Norman Jewison

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. — Jim Samuels