Pinesap Flower Quotes & Sayings

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?' — Robert Breault

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat — Rodney Brooks

I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I just take a lot of notes, and sometimes I sit down and put them all together. — Courtney Barnett

Once assured that we'd lost our tail, I plummeted down into a nearby field, landing with a skidding thud.
Bones dropped to the ground next to me without so much as a bent stem of grass to show for it. One day I'd master landing that gracefully. For now, I did well not to leave a small crater in my wake. — Jeaniene Frost

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age. — Lesley Pearse

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. — Petrarch

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N. — Shirley Temple

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant. — Darnell Lamont Walker

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands
whether of individuals or entire peoples
need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world. — Paulo Freire

There will be people who look at you and say 'You're weird' smile at them and say thank you because they don't know how beautifully unique you are — Me

Ordinary life goes on
that has saved many a man's reason. — Graham Greene

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying. — Thomas Huxley

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond. — H. P. Blavatsky

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'. — Jennifer Egan