Pallister Hall Quotes & Sayings

I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in the striving than in the winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning. — Dean Koontz

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it. — Jarvis Cocker

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path. — Mahatma Gandhi

I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduced himself to somebody and they said, 'Oh, do you know Ben Elliot? I'd really like to meet him.' I remember him ringing me up, really annoyed. — Ben Elliot

The thought of hope is the seed to healing. — Shilpa Menon

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you — Andy Stanley

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. — J.M. Barrie

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. — Naomi Klein

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. — Michael Jackson

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found. — Joni Mitchell

A writer writes always! (Larry Donner, Throw Mama from the Train) — Trish Isabella Hopkins

In a 1957 experiment that helped launch the modern study of language acquisition, the late Roger Brown showed that children know that if you say, "Can you see a sib?" you probably have in mind an action or a process. No other mammal seems to be equipped to use such clues for word learning.

Even more dramatically, no other species seems to be able to make much of word order. The difference between the sentence "Dog bites man" and the sentence "Man bites dog" is largely lost on our nonhuman cousins. There is a bit of evidence that Kanzi can pay attention to word order to some tiny extent, but certainly not in anything like as rich a fashion as a three-year-old human child. — Gary F. Marcus