Peknic Peknic Schaefer Quotes & Sayings

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts. — Ray Davies

My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order, in the order of painting and the order of words, since words are what we paint with. He believed in redemption. Deep down he may even have believed in progress. Coincidence, on the other hand, is total freedom, our natural destiny. Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. — Roberto Bolano

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake. — Bette Davis

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. — Robert A. Heinlein

ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other. — Mark Kurlansky

I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious. — Robert De Niro

He dragged his words painfully from the poets — Earl Derr Biggers

Some ADD adults adapt to the work world by allowing themselves to be pitifully underemployed. Rather than find a great match for their skills and interests, they will work at a job far below their natural abilities. In this way, their inevitable screwups and difficulties with following directions will be balanced by being more capable than those they work with. This strategy has its own set of painful problems. For one thing, knowing you could do and be more can lead to an enduring agony. For another, you may find yourself falling prey to negative feedback from people who aren't as smart as you are. Another strategy ADD adults sometimes adopt is to overcompensate, working inhuman hours to try to avoid possible criticism. It can be shattering when even this strategy doesn't prevent criticism from heading your way, whether from colleagues, bosses, or clients. Another problem with this strategy is that it can take a tremendous toll on your personal relationships. — Lara Honos-Webb

We must not think of this merely as a theological or metaphysical question. For — Roger Scruton

Suddenly there was a humming in the air, and the bees were there too. They flowed out of Granny Weatherwax's hive, circling Tiffany like a halo, crowning her, and swarm and girl stood on the threshold of the cottage and Tiffany reached out her arms and the bees settled along them, and welcomed her home. — Terry Pratchett

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star! — Robert Browning