Moonwatcher Quotes & Sayings

But, once again, when I said I'm so grateful for my mom just being adamant about me staying in public school - that is what allowed me to be exposed to so many different types of people. I went to a high school that was by the beach. I elected to do bussing my junior high school years. And my first year of high school, I would take the bus from my neighborhood to the beach schools. And at those schools, you had such a mix of so many types of kids. — Regina King

People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution. — Antonio Damasio

Do not make images. Everything is. Mirkka Rekola — Leena Krohn

It was as if he were a single whole, grasped by her first glance at him, like some irreducible absolute, like an axiom not to be explained any further, as if she knew everything about him by direct perception, and what awaited her now was only the process of identifying her knowledge. — Ayn Rand

Listen" Darkstalker said, "I could see the future, but not just any future- all the possible futures. Do you understand what that means? I could have guided the tribe along the best path, to safety and glory and power and everything else. At each crossroad, I would have known the right thing to do. I loved my tribe Moonwatcher. i would have been the best ruler they'd ever had. I know it; I saw the futures where I was king, benevolent and beloved, married to Clearsight with six little dragonets of our own. Those were possible. They could have happened, if anyone had faith in me. — Tui T. Sutherland

I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements. — Brad Alan Lewis

Wealth begins ... in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood ... — Marsilio Ficino

Although everyone knew it as freedom from the laws of Islam, no one was quite sure what else westernization was good for. — Orhan Pamuk

He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself. — William S. Paley

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self. — Frederick Lenz

I really don't sit here and dream what life in the White House will be like. I just can't go beyond the point when the people go to the ballot box with all that power. — Tipper Gore

Few people recognize that when they're moved by a work of art, they're moved by an artist's ability to solve a problem that is often a long-standing, timeless one. — Anonymous

We live among the dead until we join them, — Adam Haslett

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease. — Steven Pinker

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. — William Bernbach