Mosaiced Quotes & Sayings

The walls were hung with rich tapestries representing the Triumph of Beauty. A large press, inlaid with agate and lapis-lazuli, filled one corner, and facing the window stood a curiously wrought cabinet with lacquer panels of powdered and mosaiced gold, on which were placed some delicate goblets of Venetian glass, and a cup of dark-veined onyx. Pale poppies were broidered on the silk coverlet of the bed, as though they had fallen from the tired hands of sleep, and tall reeds of fluted ivory bare up the velvet canopy, from which great tufts of ostrich plumes sprang, like white foam, to the pallid silver of the fretted ceiling. A laughing Narcissus in green bronze held a polished mirror above its head. On the table stood a flat bowl of amethyst. — Oscar Wilde

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick — John Arlott

dont take me for granted again, your been watched - thirteen reasons why — Jay Asher

There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people. — Jacqueline Bisset

I realized that sometimes we have to step outside the walls and fight. Sometimes the armor we thought was protecting us was actually weighing us down. — Kami Garcia

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off. — Dennis Bergkamp

If you shake the Universe hard enough, change will fall out of its pockets. — Brad Schreiber

All people end up somewhere in life, but few end up there on purpose. — Craig Groeschel

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs. — Albert Einstein

Know thyself is one of the fundamental commands that aim at human strength and happiness. — Erich Fromm

Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free.
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls.
Where words come out from the depth of truth,
where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection.
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit.
Where the mind is led forward by thee
into ever widening thought and action.
In to that heaven of freedom, my father,
LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE! — Rabindranath Tagore

Though it is unreal it is not meaningless — George Orwell

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. — Tom Hooper

Marcus Buckingham has a keen sense of what it takes to excel, and he backs his insights with an impressive body of in-depth interviews and research. This is an important book for anybody who aspires to effective leadership, managing, or any kind of enduring individual achievement. — Richard M. Kovacevich

She'd never call Smith males "womanizers." Although she would call them whores. — Shelly Laurenston