Practisd Quotes & Sayings

Next to her Percy coughed. This place smells like my ex-stepfather. — Rick Riordan

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance. — Matthew Syed

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks. — Ernest Hemingway,

Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we? — Marisa Silver

I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic. — Brendan Gleeson

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

...all intolerable local situations have become world situations, with the result that the whole world has become a local situation, here, under your nose, staring at you, and when your sensitivity is still alive and not dulled, that is, when you are young, if all you can do is stare back at it helplessly, you run amok, you blow up, you smash whatever is at hand, you express yourself, you seek a release. — Romain Gary

Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus. — Tom Robbins

Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season. — Alan Hansen

I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out.
Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice. — Marian Keyes

Everyone else isn't you. It turns out that's a huge problem for me. — Clementine Von Radics

Go on a date or something, you need to get a life, — Kiera Cass

I've worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate's distribution of long straws is wildly capricious. — Warren Buffett

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen. — Luke Temple