Perseid Quotes & Sayings

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them. — Alice Hoffman

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. — Thomas A. Edison

Elementary, my dear fucksticks. Bullshit, — Stephen King

Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like. — Zhang Ziyi

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music. — Paul Signac

Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty. — William James

Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is. — James Thurber

Karta (The Creator) and Karim (The beneficient) are the names of the same God.
Razak (The provider) and Rahim (The merciful) are also the names given to Him.
Let no man in his error wrangle over differences in names.
Worship the One God who is the Lord of all. Know that his form is one and He is the One light diffused in all. — Guru Gobind Singh

In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They're out there showering down, committing hari-kiri in a flame of fatal attraction, and hissing perhaps into the ocean. But at dawn what looks like a blue dome clamps down over me like a lid on a pot. The stars and planets could smash and I'd never know. Only a piece of ashen moon occasionally climbs up or down the inside of the dome, and our local star without surcease explodes on our heads. We have really only that one light, one source for all power, and yet we must turn away from it by universal decree. Nobody here on the planet seems aware of that strange, powerful taboo, that we all walk about carefully averting our faces, this way and that, lest our eyes be blasted forever. — Annie Dillard

Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.. — Robin Sharma

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches. — J. Michael Straczynski

Don't you let go. Don't let go. Reach! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Keep it in your pants, Day. — Daisy Prescott

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If you like foie gras, that doesn't mean you no longer need a regular steak. — Alexey Miller

Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away. — John Lasseter