Peregrym Falcon Quotes & Sayings

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless". — Paula Scher

You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in shape, you do what you need to do, and then by the time you get to the game, you know your plays, but they have to feel like they're in your bones. That has to be an unconscious thing, it cannot be conscious. That is everything to me. — Jake Gyllenhaal

It seems to him there are
a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. — Rainer Maria Rilke

You know when pillowcases come out of the dryer and they get really wrinkled? I iron them. — Jacob Latimore

A hakawati is a teller of tales, myths, and fables. A storyteller, and entertainer. A troubadour of sorts, someone who earns his keep by beguiling an audience with yarns. Like the word "hekayah" story, fable, news, hakawati is derived from the Lebanese word "haki", which means talk or conversation. This suggests that in Lebanese the mere act of talking is storytelling. — Rabih Alameddine

The human facility for perceiving speech begins very young: small babies have been shown to prefer the sounds of speech to nonspeech sounds. It is a fascinating paradox that humans can hear only up to fifteen different non-speech sounds per second, and beyond this they hear unremitting noise. Yet when they decode speech, they hear twenty to thirty distinct sounds per second. Somehow human speakers can pack, and in turn unpack, almost twice as many sounds if those sounds consist of consonants and vowels that are the components of the language they speak. — Christine Kenneally

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God. — Os Guinness

I like interesting myself in the lives of others. God put these people in my life for a reason. Maybe for my learning. Hopefully to help them. I like it when I can help. My heart aches for those who suffer and walk a difficult path. — Kirn Hans

I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think. — Isabel Lucas

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office. — Juliana Hatfield

I still have hope that I won't have to confess it all, but he must have gone through angel interrogation school because he gets it all out of me. — Susan Ee

Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers. — Myles Munroe

This love is reserved for nothing but adoration, intense attraction, for a different, singular type of devotion. This love I feel for you I feel because I love you just as you are and not for what you can give me. It's an unselfish love. And oh my God but I love you, Fin. So, so much. — Fisher Amelie

But talent - if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless. — Elizabeth Hand

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else. — Robertson Davies