Renewables Worldwide Quotes & Sayings

The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts ... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach. — Northrop Frye

I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that. — Kate Winslet

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction. — Stephen Jay Gould

The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege. — Mary Ritter Beard

I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off. — Megan Fox

I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive. — Demetri Martin

Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best. — Frederick Buechner

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them. — Claude Monet

I used to love to hear stories of that man's exploits! One of my heroes, when I was young. Riding round the enemy, harassing his lines of communication, falling on the baggage train and whatnot.
The Prince's riding crop rode around, harassed, and fell on imaginary baggage in the air before him. — Joe Abercrombie

It his mind, they reminded him of 'Tweedle Dee' and 'Tweedle Dum', with an extra emphasise placed on the 'Dum'! — Adele Rose

Man, all those years in college we didn't get along, I could've just given you a pie and, bam, new best friend. — Melissa Tagg

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. — Peter Kay

I read that young Netalia Lackless had run away with a troupe of traveling performers. — Patrick Rothfuss

Of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, for my unconquerable soul.'" "Jonathan ... " His name was a prayer. — C.D. Reiss