Phaenomena Poem Quotes & Sayings

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. — Loretta Lynn

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere. — P.G. Wodehouse

Toward the end of her life a burglar broke into her house and pistol-whipped her. She was an elderly woman by then, and it sent her into a downward spiral. When she was in the hospital dying, I called, and she asked me not to come and see her; she wanted me to remember her as she was. I felt I had to honor her request. As we talked, she told me she was wearing the four-leaf clover necklace I had given her. Barbara [Stanwyck] was cremated wearing it, and her ashes were scattered over Lone Pine. The fact that a piece of me remained with her at the end was and is some consolation for her loss. — Robert Wagner

Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state — Gichin Funakoshi

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. — H.G.Wells

Because she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn't hold you close, or tell you all the time that you were the best thing ever, or even notice when you were home: a little part of you sealed over. You didn't need her. You didn't need anyone. And without even knowing you were doing it, you waited. You waited for anyone who got close to you to see something they didn't like in you, something they hadn't initially seen, and to grow cold and disappear, too, like so much sea mist. Because there had to be something wrong, didn't there, if even your own mother didn't really love you? — Jojo Moyes

Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself. — Wojciech Kurtyka

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Winter. It made things visible. But — Ali Smith

The way out of a trap is to know the way the trap is built. Only then will it cease being a trap. — Marguerite Beecher