Pinwheeling Fish Quotes & Sayings

When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find ... And of course they are as a rule quite right: they did make a mistake. Only a very wise man at the end of his life could make a sound judgment concerning whom, amongst the total chances, he ought most profitably to have married! Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might have found more suitable mates. But the 'real soul-mate' is the one you are actually married to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I couldn't help smiling back. Maya had decided opinions and didn't keep them to herself. "Jones had his chance, and he blew it. There's an old Navajo
saying that I think applies here: 'You snooze, you lose.' — Allyson James

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours. — Kurt Vonnegut

When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before. — William Irwin Thompson

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew. — Clifton Fadiman

It is important to have a reliable and substantive publication such as World Screen available as a source for information. The magazine's reporting is always on the cutting edge of the global television business. — Jeffrey Bewkes

Left him delighted with the imaginary Audition of the phantasmal sea-surge, — Ezra Pound

The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task. — Steve Eisman

This is your way of telling me I should be doing something far more worthwhile than peeling your potatoes. — Jojo Moyes

It is a strange and wonderful and somewhat embarrassing feeling to hold someone in your arms who is trying to detach you from the earth and you aren't good enough to follow her. — Norman Maclean

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it. — Raymond Carver

I had not lived a sheltered life. I'd had my share of hardships and sorrows. I thought I knew how the world worked, but this I could not believe. I thought that if it was known that bad things were happening to children, those bad things would be stopped. But that is not the sort of society we live in, I realized. There is no such society. — Cheryl Strayed

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. — David Novak

Fasting is the first principle of medicine. — Rumi