Rand Fishkin Quotes & Sayings

The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers. — Fanny Kemble

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. — John Desmond Bernal

My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films. — Celina Jade

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. — Aleksandar Hemon

Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
May look wrinkled and wet
And withered, and white as the snow,
But the taste of a thumb
Is the sweetest taste yet
(As only we thumb-sucker's know). — Shel Silverstein

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from ... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. — William Shakespeare

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city. — P.D. James

Wilshere looks like he's got the grit between his teeth — Darren Gough

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. — Camille Paglia

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control. — Beth Orton

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose. — Tim Jackson

Writing is the way I participate in the struggle. — Edwidge Danticat

Because if you had your eye to business, you could see places in the sewers where a tosher could hang on in a bubble of air while all around him the world raged. — Terry Pratchett

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires. — Malcolm Turnbull