Precociousness Quotes & Sayings

Everything faded away except one emotion. One so pure and innocent that it seemed intangible. I was encompassed and filled with a sensation that was consuming, warming me throughout. There was a word that was the closest thing to describe it, but the gravity he held of it was so much more than a word could possibly convey. He saw everything I was to God, to this world, to his own heart. Our souls were entwined with it, our destinies written by it, our hearts beat to it.
Love. — Ashlan Thomas

She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without her. — Virginia Woolf

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software. — Kent Beck

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age. — Karl Kraus

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it — Terry Pratchett

Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart ... — Bruce Friedrich

That's stupid. Everyone lies."
"Yeah, well, it's a waste of time. The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember. Believe me: it's easier to just be honest. — Katie Klein

I fink it is a femuw. A femuw of a winowcowus ... A a-stinct winocowus. — Elizabeth Peters

His life in general had been a neatly wrapped package of lies. — Elizabeth Brundage

No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus. — Mary Allsebrook

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure. — Sienna Miller

The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending to venture into such tricky waters needs to have an intimate knowledge of all the hidden reefs. — John Nunn

You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy. — Laila Ali

Without warning, David was visited by an exact vision of death: a long hole in the ground, no wider than your body, down which you are drawn while the white faces above recede. You try to reach them but your arms are pinned. Shovels put dirt into your face. There you will be forever, in an upright position, blind and silent, and in time no one will remember you, and you will never be called by any angel. As strata of rock shift, your fingers elongate, and your teeth are distended sideways in a great underground grimace indistinguishable from a strip of chalk. And the earth tumbles on, and the sun expires, and unaltering darkness reigns where once there were stars. — John Updike

I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras! — Zach Woodlee

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions. — Alice Munro

Join MI5? I was ready to lead it. — Ian McEwan

The fear of failure takes the joy out of living. — Charles F. Glassman