Nyoka Quotes & Sayings

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line. — Virginia Woolf

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie. — W. H. Auden

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime. — Victor Hugo

Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name. — Sarah Josepha Hale

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. — Marcel Proust

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down. — Jules Henry

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube? — Cassandra Clare

Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see 'as it is', and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God's maya is gone, the solution is found. — Dada Bhagwan

Vomit and feces are two reason I have decided not to procreate. — Chelsea Handler

Thanks, now I have a wet T-shirt."
I felt his smile on the back of my neck. "Perhaps that was my intention. — Colleen Houck

Methodology must be flexible. Companies often don't adopt the materials & methods they were trained on because they aren't flexible enough. — Brian Lawley

He had no money or influence here. The clothes on his back were ragged, his moccasins were worn, and he was skeletally thin from lack of food and walking. But he would sail on a ship bound for England even if he had to scrub the decks to pay his way.

He was Reynaud St. Aubyn, the Viscount of Hope, and by God or the devil, he was going home. — Elizabeth Hoyt

When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale. — Debasish Mridha

When I'm not working, I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe! — Eva Green

So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless. — Susan Beth Pfeffer