Printable Frameable Quotes & Sayings

I don't mean to imply that I value the life of a fish or a bird the same way I value a human life, but their presence in the world has as much validity as does our presence. Perhaps more: they were here first; they are foundational to us. They take only what they need. They are compatible with the life around them. — Carl Safina

I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium. — James Marsh

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. — Alexis De Tocqueville

You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. — A.S.A Harrison

When you plant the seeds, wait patiently to see the ripen fruits. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue. — George Saunders

In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and my paintings. There are, after all, more popular painters in this country. — Georg Baselitz

Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components ... the syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation. The first of these is interpreted by the semantic component; the second, by the phonological component. — Noam Chomsky

You'll only fall if you doubt your balance. — Willa Okati

The Christian community is not a spiritual sanatorium. The person who comes into a fellowship because he is running away from himself is misusing it for the sake of diversion, no matter how spiritual this diversion may appear. He is really not seeking community at all, but only distraction which will allow him to forget his loneliness for a brief time, the very alienation that creates the deadly isolation of man. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy. — Larry Wall

I fly to New York to see my shrink. I walk into her office and burst into tears. I tell her what my husband has done to me. I tell her my heart is broken. I tell her I'm a total mess and I will never be the same. I can't stop crying. She looks at me and says, You have to understand something: You were going to leave him eventually. — Nora Ephron

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others. — Linda McMahon

I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break. — Helmut Krone