Parkdale Quotes & Sayings

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back. — Cyril Connolly

He said he didn't even exist without you. That he was an empty vessel and that you filled him and owned him until he didn't know where he ended and you began. — Lynetta Halat

I know the mind, like the parachute, is most valuable open. — Dan S. Kennedy

I love the grime, the real-life feel of things, the mix of dollar stores and libraries, high school students and prostitutes, little kids and dealers. What I like most about my Parkdale neighbourhood is that I can disappear. — Danila Botha

To be rich or well-born was a crime: men were prosecuted for holding or for refusing office: merit of any kind meant certain ruin. Nor were the Informers more hated for their crimes than for their prizes: some carried off a priesthood or the consulship as their spoil, others won offices and influence in the imperial household: the hatred and fear they inspired worked universal havoc. Slaves were bribed against their masters, freedmen against their patrons, and, if a man had no enemies, he was ruined by his friends. — Tacitus

The on-brand execution of best practices tailored to your unique audience is what leads to the best execution. — Chad White

Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner. — Ben Hogan

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book. — Deborah Harkness

Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on. — Patricia Schroeder

The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool. — Michael J. Massimino

Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her. — Helen Kieran Reilly

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul." — Lefty Gomez

How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature. — Rick Smolan

The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy. — Paulo Freire

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived. — Stanley Baldwin