Numenius Phaeopus Quotes & Sayings

Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight. — Alan Moore

Her mysteries had to be unravelled - so he would contain her until he'd dissected the truth of her and isolated her enigma. — Ronel Van Tonder

It sometimes becomes difficult to tell when you're even creating a buzz. You know, everything in this game, it so relies on timing that that part is really important, and it's something that everyone tries to pay a lot of attention to. — Joe Budden

Oh ... a lot of one and some of the other. — E.L. James

The best player in the world; whenever Iniesta is on the pitch he creates a spectacle. — Samuel Eto'o

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. — John Updike

But Jim, now, he knows it happens, he watches for it happening, he sees it start, he sees it finish, he licks the wound he expected, and never asks why: he knows. He always knew. Someone knew before him, a long time ago, someone who had wolves for pets and lions for night conversants. Hell, Jim doesn't know with his mind. But his body knows. And while Will's putting a bandage on his latest scratch, Jim's — Ray Bradbury

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back. — Heraclitus Of Ephesus

Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: "You don't understand. This is a jobs program."] — Milton Friedman

The long, forensic interview really matters. — Jonathan Dimbleby

Toxic people systematically destroy others because if they can not bask in the light then no one else deserves to. Lost people suffer in their darkness, happily dragging your light down into their personal hell so you can listen to all their woes. Soulless people, lacking empathy, suck the light from others to taste that which they can never understand. People can't be helped until they want to be helped. You can't be there for others who need you, if any one of these types destroy you. Save yourself ... it's not a sin to love from a distance. — L.M. Fields

On a shelf over the experiment table there was the inevitable skull, which the wizard put their to remind him of death, though it usually reminded him that he needed to go to the dentist. — John Bellairs

I needed my mistakes
in their order
to get me here — W.S. Merwin

We can't always agree on everything. — Roger Federer

They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes. — Steve Martin