Romayne Beard Quotes & Sayings

If there is one sin - or rather one waste - it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for. — Oliver

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. — Terry Pratchett

Larks report being most alert around noon and feel most productive at work a few hours before they eat lunch. They don't need an alarm clock, because they invariably get up before the alarm rings - often before 6:00 a.m. Larks cheerfully report their favorite mealtime as breakfast and generally consume much less coffee than non-larks. Getting increasingly drowsy in the early evening, most larks go to bed (or want to go to bed) around 9:00 p.m. — John Medina

She shook her head. What was the point of anger? There were occasions when Mma Ramotswe, like all of us, could feel angry, but they were few - and they never lasted long. Anger, Obed Ramotswe had explained to her once, is no more than a salt that we rub into our wounds. She had never forgotten that - along with the things he said about cattle, and Botswana, and the behaviour of the rains. — Alexander McCall Smith

The supreme hallmark of reality is balance. — Bryant McGill

He came to read; two or three books
are lying open: history and poetry.
But after just ten minutes of reading
he lets them drop. There on the sofa
he falls asleep. He truly is devoted to reading-
but he is twenty-three years old, and very handsome.
And just this afternoon, Eros surged
within his perfect limbs and on his lips.
Into his beautiful flesh came the heat of passion,
and there was no foolish embarrassment
about the form that pleasure took.. — C.P. Cavafy

Fate likes to tease paranoids.' — Mark Kurlansky

You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those. — William Shakespeare

There was a dead ... something on my floor and a whatever standing in front of me. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name. — Leslea Tash