Nrern Quotes & Sayings

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get. — Thomas Carlyle

He that best understands the world, least likes it — Benjamin Franklin

Being cryptic is an art unto itself. — Shannon L. Alder

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts. — Edwidge Danticat

There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision. — Rupert Friend

She looked around herself, disoriented, like she'd forgotten we were at lunch. Like she'd forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not alone in some private place. I understood that feeling exactly. It was hard to remember the rest of the world when I was with her. — Stephenie Meyer

Well, I suppose it did. — Robert A. Heinlein

Like all immigrants, he seemed to have an unerring instinct for the oldest, truest words in his new language. The way he said the word, it felt free of the treacherous weight of mate — Richard Flanagan

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.' — Sunidhi Chauhan

Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes. — Rick Riordan

Sometimes we get confused about what happiness really means. Sometimes we get confused about what path to take to get to happiness. — Chinelo Okparanta

What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.' — Mark Fidrych