Riihimaki Polaris Quotes & Sayings

I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.' — Margaret Stohl

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans

Laughter is the music of life. — William Osler

You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be 'just' a wave."
"Get off my chin."
"I like that about you. Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth. Under the right circumstances, even entire civilizations."
I blink.
"You're going to be one hell of a woman one day, Dani. — Karen Marie Moning

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum. — Terry Pratchett

Let's dare to do something so big that if God is not in it, we are doomed to fail. — Edmund Chan

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — William Makepeace Thackeray

Case in point: Warnings on cigarette packages can increase a smoker's urge to light up. A 2009 study found that death warnings trigger stress and fear in smokers - exactly what public health officials hope for. Unfortunately, this anxiety then triggers smokers' default stress-relief strategy: smoking. Oops. It isn't logical, but it makes sense based on what we know about how stress influences the brain. Stress triggers cravings and makes dopamine neurons even more excited by any temptation in sight. It doesn't help that the smoker is - of course - staring at a pack of cigarettes as he reads the warning. So even as a smoker's brain encodes the words "WARNING: Cigarettes cause cancer" and grapples with awareness of his own mortality, another part of his brain starts screaming, "Don't worry, smoking a cigarette will make you feel better! — Kelly McGonigal

Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised. — Ruth Ahmed

If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon. — Geraldine Brooks

Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers. — Veronica Roth