Pedras Pintadas Quotes & Sayings

I did jazz dance for a few years. — Sharon Van Etten

I felt my way up the cliffs to the south until I found a patch of machair a few yards long and a few wide, where I pitched my tent and settled to sleep. The stars stood sharp above. It felt odd to be on rock again, not sea, to think of the ground on which I lay extending down to the floor of the Minch. Lying there, I could still feel the day at sea, blood and water slopping about in my bag of skin, the tidal churn of my liquid body, a roll and sway in the skull. My mind beat back north against the current, thinking of the puffins' flight, the lines we leave behind us, the spacious weave, our wake, then sleep. — Robert Macfarlane

None so deaf as those that will not hear; none so blind as those that will not see. — Nancy Holder

Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. — William Cowper

It is generally useless to carry out details without having seen the main connection, or having made a sort of plan. — George Polya

Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul. — Stefan Emunds

Strangely enough, Kathy Jordan is getting to the net first, which she always does. — Fred Perry

Who needs fireworks when I have you? — Cherise Sinclair

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right — Tom Robbins

South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American ... are all recent migrants from North America. — Stephen Jay Gould