Pryke Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

We need three basic things to live - food, clothing, and shelter. Very few of us actually grow our own food, make our own clothes, and build our own homes. If we do not fulfill our basic needs by ourselves, why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to do everything else on our own? Just what are we trying to prove? — Christine Hassler

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Something that I consider 'my invention', since I haven't seen it done anywhere before is 'Super-speed photography'. Now normal high-speed photography involves either a very fast camera at a high frame rate or the act of 'freezing' the motion using flash, while the actual exposure is actually quite long. For much of my high-speed photography with flash I was using shutter speeds of two seconds to give me time to break or shoot whatever my subject was and trigger the flash with a sound activated device. But then I started playing with the idea of using the flash trigger of the camera to actually cause the event. — Desmond Downs

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life. — Nora Ephron

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. — Anais Nin

Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? — Walker Percy

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had — Francis Bacon

As angry as he was, his father could not help but laugh. 'You're not my son,' he told Bran when they fetched him down, 'you're a squirrel. So be it. If you must climb, then climb, but try not to let your mother see you. — George R R Martin

His wife had also studied art in her hometown, and she could paint, but depending on such work for her livelihood was just not possible. As far as appearances went, she was definitely a real beauty. When she was young, she looked a little like Gong Li, but now that she was middle-aged, she had put on weight and gradually taken on more of a bell-shaped look, resembling Li Siqin. But no matter what, a wife always looks better than her balding, broadbellied husband. — Chew Kok Chang

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change. — Stephen Jay Gould

I have spent
or wasted
my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games. — Brock Yates

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin. — Rainbow Rowell

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural. — Laurie Halse Anderson