Photoreceptor Cells Quotes & Sayings

I'm on the New York State Council for the Arts now, and every so often some other member talks about sending notices to college English departments about some literary opportunity, and I say, Send them to the chemistry departments, send them to the zoology departments, send them to the anthropology departments and the astronomy departments and physics departments, and all the medical and law schools. That's where the writers are most likely to be. — Kurt Vonnegut

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them ... — Edith Wharton

Family strength is a marvellous thing. — Agatha Christie

Well, and he supposed a duel with a drunken midget was as good a test as any. — Diana Gabaldon

Love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey. — Paulo Coelho

Without knowing it, I was acquiring that haughty bearing which is characteristic of so many eccentrics. What other expression would you expect to find on the face of anyone who knows that if he turns his head too quickly, he will see on the faces of others glares of stark terror or grimaces of hatred? Aloofness is the posture of self-defense. — Quentin Crisp

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness. — Jeremy Taylor

To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts. — Wu Bangguo

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it. — Theodor Adorno

We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history. — John E. Jones III

We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships. — Michael Dell

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things. — Sharon Stone

I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me — Laurie Matthew

Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline
and above all his interest in others
these together make up the spirit of morale. — Phyllis Bottome