Runjunkees Quotes & Sayings

hadn't grown into being a woman, she had become a woman with an exclamation mark, the sort of hardy feminine brute of the Pleistocene from which all women, great and frail, are descended. — J. Ryan Stradal

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. — Moby

I club the thing over the head and that's the end of it. — Joe Teti

Each minute of my life is brand new and ready to be used. — Stephen Richards

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all ... That was like ignoring cancer. — Octavia E. Butler

If you don't dare to suffer the loss, then you shouldn't gain either. — Sajan Kc.

My father Time is weak and gray
With waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good. — Jamie Farr

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason — Jimmy Fallon

Great inspiration makes great scientists. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness. — James Stalker

When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss. — Robert Greenberg

Bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent ... — John Geddes

The gap between intentions and actions is character. — Orrin Woodward