Oreiller Ergonomique Quotes & Sayings

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. — Deepak Chopra

What business, said Priscilla's look more plainly than any words, what business had people to walk into other people's cottages in such a manner? She stood quite still, and scrutinized Mrs. Morrison with the questioning expression she used to find so effective in Kunitz days when confronted by a person inclined to forget which, exactly, was his proper place. But Mrs. Morrison knew nothing of Kunitz, and the look lost half its potency without its impressive background. Besides, the lady was not one to notice things so slight as looks; to keep her in her proper place you would have needed sledge-hammers. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Life was nothing if not unimaginable. — Jewel E. Ann

I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism. — Evelyn Fox Keller

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns. — Jesse Kellerman

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones. — Stephanie Klein

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity. — Jim Broadbent

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it. — Ace Frehley

Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise). — Kerry Thornley

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories. — Mary E. Pearson

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter. — Susan M. Watkins

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side. — Herman Melville