Retkitukku Quotes & Sayings

There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us. — Julio Cortazar

That there is nothing wrong with having a dark side. It helps us know, and appreciate, our better side. — Cameron Jace

Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing. — G.K. Chesterton

Poetry matters. Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to a realm of art. It can transform the thing that might have made people fearful into something that invites them to look, and look a little longer, and maybe even understand. — Aimee Mullins

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it. — Ann Brashares

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken

Insecurity is unnecessary - you will get what you deserve. — Jack Canfield

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum. — Alice Waters

One day you'll meet someone who will consume your very soul. When you meet that person, you'll know. And if that person ever tries to leave you, fight for them, because once they're gone, life will become a chore. — Belle Aurora

Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings? — David Niven

As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team. — Patrick Kane

To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. It will come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are simply there in their vast, quiet tranquility, as if eternity lay before them. It is a lesson I learn every day amid hardships I am thankful for: patience is all! — Rainer Maria Rilke

We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?' - but what about the thing you want to do? That's what'll keep you young. It's empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person's idea of what you should be. — Matt Dillon