Rocktape Quotes & Sayings

For I inhabit the spaces in between, where auras mix and hearts reach out and knowing hovers, and where sticks against each human the little burrs of others, long-ago brushed against but never forgot. — The Wind Sophia In Featherfoot

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe. — Sean Connery

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. — John Robert Seeley

To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself. — Suzanne Segal

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London. — Evan Davis

Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every three climbers who do scale the mountain, one dies trying. The facts aren't welcoming. But you don't plan a trip to Everest believing those facts will apply to you. — Stacy Allison

Would it be too explicit, too exaggerated, to say that when I set eyes on Isobel Tolland, I knew at once that I should marry her? Something like that is the truth; certainly nearer the truth than merely to record those vague, inchoate sentiments of interest of which I was so immediately conscious. It was as if I had known her for many years already; enjoyed happiness with her and suffered sadness. I was conscious of that, as of another life, nostalgically remembered. Then, at that moment, to be compelled to go through all the paraphernalia of introduction, of 'getting to know' one another by means of the normal formalities of social life, seemed hardly worth while. We knew one another already; the future was determinate. — Anthony Powell

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians. — Robert P. Murphy

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships. — Mark Twain

These tiny ants have proceeded from His thought just as much as I, it caused Him just as much trouble to create the angels as these animals and the flowers on the trees. — Catherine Of Siena

Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible. — Buzz Aldrin

I just mean that everything eventually ends. The two suns are always rising somewhere. That's part of life. Something ends and then something else will begin. — Sue Monk Kidd

She was a friendly creature, and lived a life so really isolated from any ordinary companionship that her simple little talks with Jane and Mrs. Cupp were a pleasure to her. The Cupps were neither gossiping nor intrusive, and she felt as if they were her friends. Once when she had been ill for a week she remembered suddenly realising that — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I wanted to use a totally different part of my brain. It's quite scary at times. I went for learning to fly because it was most difficult of all. The insurance man just sat there and licked his lips when I told him. — Jay Kay