Podshivalovs Early Thoughts Quotes & Sayings

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. — George Eliot

and when he awoke it was as if he had awakened in hell. It WAS hell - "the hell of conscious failure, — Thomas Hardy

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything. — Katherine Paterson

To sleep is an act of faith. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication. — Jared Diamond

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. — James Baldwin

I have yellow post-it notes plastered all over my office - they help me stay organized. — Stewart Rahr

I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records. — Charlie Puth

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need ... — Zoe Akins

Correct spelling, correct punctuation, correct grammar. Hundreds of rules for itsy-bitsy people. No one could remember all that stuff and concentrate on what he was trying to write about. It was all table manners, not derived from any sense of kindness or decency or humanity, but originally from an egotistic desire to look like gentlemen and ladies. Gentlemen and ladies had good table manners and spoke and wrote grammatically. It was what identified one with the upper classes. In Montana, however, it didn't have this effect at all. It identified one, instead, as a stuck-up Eastern ass. — Robert M. Pirsig

When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness. — Doug Stanhope