Passable Synonym Quotes & Sayings

There was just a beautiful, unearthly silence. He thought of the wood and the bluebells, the owl and the fox, a Hornby train trundling around his bedroom floor, the smell of a cake baking in the oven. The skylark ascending on his thread of song. F-Fox — Kate Atkinson

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life. — Margot Asquith

Adversity is another way to measure
the greatness of individuals. I never had
a crisis that didn't make me stronger. — Lou Holtz

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes. — Wayne Rooney

Maybe it was fate that I sat next to her that day, or serendipity, divine intervention, who knows? However you look at, I got seated next to the first girl to ever really steal my heart. I was in love from that moment on. — Renee Carlino

Independently of me the grass grows, the rain falls on the grass that grows, and the sun shines on the patch of grass that grew or will grow; the hills have been there for ages, and the wind blows in the same way as when Homer heard it, even if he didn't exist. — Fernando Pessoa

If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot. — Raekwon

You are the culmination of all that ever was. You are the highest point of the vast pyramid of history and of your own life. — Bryant McGill

I've always thought that pressure is trying to feed your family, trying to make a mortgage. We play a game ... And this is an amazing game. — Shane Battier

In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'. — Scott Adams

If you ask every American out there what kind of a people we are, we would all say, "Oh, we're really good people. We do good things in the world." Then you go around the world and ask what America is like, there's a completely different conceptualization of what we are. — Wayne Dyer

Usually the space was dotted with people getting high, getting higher, or wondering why they werent high yet. — Hubert Selby Jr.

The moment a mind closes is the moment it can no longer evolve. Intellectual inertia soon follows. I suppose that in many ways this is one of my main objections to theism; it assumes that all questions are already firmly answered. There is no room for curiosity. A closed question does not lead to other questions. Thus, there is no progression, no evolution, no molting. This is no good for me. I want to evolve. I want to progress. I want to molt. And I want to keep learning about the real mysteries of this Universe. — Michael Vito Tosto

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup. Dude, you're a genius! — Louis C.K.