Nimki Quotes & Sayings

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. — Haruki Murakami

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him. — Albert Schweitzer

'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name. — Wiz Khalifa

There comes a time in life when you have two choices: either take a step back and let go a bit, or move forward into the unknown and see where things take you. Stepping back is easy, it's safe, a cocoon of warm and routine. Hurt can't overtake you when you raise a white flag of surrender. Conversely, moving forward is scary, everything is a question, you might face rejection. You might lose everything. — Amy Matayo

People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings. — Anais Nin

Spare a copper for our cause?" the girl with the coin cup asks, her voice weary.
"I can spare more than that," I say. I reach into my purse and giver her what real coins I have, and then I press my hand to hers and whisper, "Don't give up," watching the magic spark in her eyes.
"The tragedy of the Beardon's Bonnet Factory!" she shouts, a fire catching. "Six souls murdered for a profit! Will you let it stand, sir? Will you look away, m'um?"
Her sisters-in-arms raise their placards again. "Fair wages, fair treatment!" they call. "Justice!"
Their voices swell into a chorus that thunders through the dark London streets until it can no longer be ignored. — Libba Bray

My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.' — Lisa Tuttle

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered ... sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks ... — Ray Bradbury

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. — Gerald Chertavian

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack. — Bode Miller

One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment. — David Sze

Surveys of personal values in men and women find that the men assign a lopsided value to professional status compared to all the other pleasures of life.108 — Steven Pinker