Obstalces Quotes & Sayings

Challenges stimulate courage. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you are speaking of music ... it is of all subjects my delight. There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her health would have allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have performed delightfully. - Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Clearly we have all the time in the world," she said crossly. "Feel free to start way back with the dinosaurs - just as long as you get to the Carnevares and Alcantaras sometime. — Kai Meyer

Children may end up being the unexpected teachers of people many times their age, to whom they offer - through their exhaustive dependence, egoism, and vulnerability - an advanced education in a wholly new sort of love, one in which reciprocation is never jealously demanded or fractiously regretted and in which the true goal is nothing less than the transcendence of oneself for the sake of another. The — Alain De Botton

My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out. — Isabel Wilkerson

The jellies living nearest the surface had transparent bodies, but their edges twinkled and flashed, as though traced by fiber-optic cables, blinking and undulating like neon signs. They were delicate; if you weren't looking — Susan Casey

I've never really sought out publicity. — Dennis Quaid

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had. — David Lynch

That dude is a lot like a big, drooly dog. Doesn't matter if he just met you, he wants to lick your face and hump your leg — Sarina Bowen

On the Doncella, Federico Venusta had his hand mutilated by the explosion of his own grenade. He demanded a galley slave cut it off. When the man refused, he performed the operation himself and then went to the cook's quarters, ordered them to tie the carcass of a chicken over the bleeding stump, and returned to battle, shouting at his right hand to avenge his left. — Roger Crowley

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. — Hector Berlioz

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars — T.E. Lawrence

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power. — Joss Whedon

Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends. — Ed Greenwood

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way. — Nico Muhly