Ngwirathira Quotes & Sayings

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature. — John Ruskin

I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart. - Gloria Dump — Kate DiCamillo

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
-Roosevelt to Churchill — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Josh: Don't do this to us. I think you're afraid. I don't know why - I don't know what I could've said or done to make you distrust me - but for once in your life, Isla, take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are. I know who you are, and I love who you are. Why don't you trust me? — Stephanie Perkins

the brogue tripping from his tongue like a slashed wineskin. — Mary Brown

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe. — John Updike

'Arrested Development' is great; Mitch Hurwitz is great. Plus, it's the one show I've ever had where, on the small parts, he just let me cast people. — Allison Jones

Surely it is an excellent plan, when you are seated before delicacies and choice foods, to impress upon your imagination that this is the dead body of a fish, that the dead body of a bird or a pig; and again, that the Falernian wine is grape juice and that robe of purple a lamb's fleece dipped in a shellfish's blood; and in matters of sex intercourse, that it is the attrition of an entrail and a convulsive expulsion of a mere mucus. Surely these are excellent imaginations, going to the heart of actual facts and penetrating them so as to see the kind of things they really are. You should adopt this practice all through your life, and where things make an impression which is very plausible, uncover their nakedness, see into their cheapness, strip off the profession on which they vaunt themselves. For pride is an arch-seducer of reason, and just when you fancy you are most certainly busy in good works, then you are mostly certainly guilty of imposture. — Marcus Aurelius

That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events. — William Faulkner

To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly. — Marilyn Monroe

Just washed, How chill The white leeks! — Matsuo Basho

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile. — Iyanla Vanzant

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on. — Will Arnett

That's impossible,' said Fever, Engineerishly. — Philip Reeve