Pounamu Carver Quotes & Sayings

I never knew whether his speedy speech patterns reflected amphetamine use or an amphetamine mind. He would often lead me up blind alleys or through an endless labyrinth of incomprehensible logic. I felt like Alice with the Mad Hatter, negotiating jokes without punch lines, and having to retrace my steps on the chessboard floor back to the logic of my own peculiar universe. — Patti Smith

He did not mention that his skill was as a carver. He had never sold pounamu. He would not sell pounamu. For one could not put a price upon a treasure, just as one could not purchase mana, and one could not make a bargain with a god. Gold was not a treasure - this Tauwhare knew. Gold was like all capital in that it had no memory: its drift was always onward, away from the past. — Eleanor Catton

I like to wear a "Do Not Disturb" sign around my neck so that little kids can't tell me knock-knock jokes. "Hey, how ya doin'? Knock-knock." "Read the sign, punk!" — Mitch Hedberg

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Molly wondered if these boys really loved baseball, the sound and smell of it, the rhythm of it, the leather and wood, the grass and dirt, the story and surprise in a good game. — Mick Cochrane

Diva has a negative connotation. — Glenn Close

Sorry the man, to my mind, who has not in his own home a place to be all by himself, to pay his court privately to himself, to hide! — Michel De Montaigne

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. — Nelson Mandela

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers. — Seth Godin

God's Word changes the way you think, feel, and live. — Elizabeth George

It won't hurt me. This will be scary, but it won't hurt me--But fear hurt, too. — Maggie Stiefvater