Perfekta Quotes & Sayings

A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour,
ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince.
They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,
laid out by the mast, amidships,
the great ring-giver. Far fetched treasures
were piled upon him, and precious gear.
I have never heard before of a ship so well furbished
with battle tackle, bladed weapons
and coats of mail. The massed treasure
was loaded on top of him: it would travel far
on out into the ocean's sway.
They decked his body no less bountifully
with offerings than those first ones did
who cast him away when he was a child
and launched him alone over the waves.
And they set a gold standard up
high above his head and let him drift
to wind and tide, bewailing him
and mourning their loss. No man can tell,
no wise man in hall or weathered veteran
knows for certain who salvaged that load. — Seamus Heaney

You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school. — Mike Lee

Everybody who meddles with Shakespeare biography readily accepts that the Bard was unfaithful to his wife and excuses him for it, but infidelity on the part of his wife is sufficient to justify estrangement. — Germaine Greer

Come, kiss me sweet, and then let us return to bed, for I am tired, and I would sleep. — Christopher Paolini

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow. — William Zinsser

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. — Ernst Mayr

Time is the school in which we learn — Joan Didion

At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance. — Steven Sinofsky

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street. — Dorothy Fields