Perler Quotes & Sayings

The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person. I feel like I write about things that I'm interested in, and I describe why they're interesting to me. I could be negative, I guess. It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. — Chuck Klosterman

A recipe is a story with a happy ending. — Daniel Thompson

Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to program, even though very few will become professional programmers. — Mitchel Resnick

We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such people, in general, looked bad on television - gray, lined, thoughtful. — Alexander McCall Smith

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness. — Jim Harrison

Books are the mirror of the soul ; the more you read the more you appear. — Osunsakin Adewale

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. — Vachel Lindsay

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well. — Kyffin Williams

I want to celebrate in the face of despair, dance when all we see on the horizon is doom. — Shauna Niequist

I may forgive, but I'll never forget. Sometimes the hurt runs so deep, that it may take a lifetime to flush it out. — Emma Paul

You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it! — Steve Maraboli

Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be absolutely necessary for the purpose, does not appear to be susceptible of any precise calculation; and must depend on a variety of circumstances with which it may be connected. Let us consult experience, the guide that ought always to be followed, whenever it can be found. — James Madison

Anyone can find places, but the finding of people is a gift from God. — E. M. Forster

Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the 'other' we accused it of being; it never was the primitive, preliminary technology of communication we thought it had to be. Rather, if the whole truth is told, oral tradition stands out as the single most dominant communicative technology of our species, as both a historical fact and, in many areas still, a contemporary reality. The miracle of the flat inscribable surface and Gutenberg's genius aside, even the electronic revolution cannot challenge the long-term preeminence of the oral tradition. ("Introduction" by John Foley) — E. Anne Mackay