Samiyam Reflectionz Quotes & Sayings

Imagine that ... unworthy of the touch of a man, yet worthy of the touch of God. — Max Lucado

Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses. — Ray Bradbury

Many people do not want to forfeit their fears. Fear is the only tool they know. — Donald L. Hicks

We provide a breadth of live and catch-up content - what we define as this season's content, none of which is available in the Netflix rerun world. — Brian L. Roberts

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia. — Vladimir Sorokin

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them. — Matt Haig

Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy. — Malcolm Morley

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite. — Gladys Taber

It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before. — Valentina Tereshkova

Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all. — Sylvia Plath

I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight. — Larry Howes

It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me ... And now it's all over. Nothing left but to die!"
"So what's it all about? What's it for? It's not possible. It's not possible that life could have been as senseless and sickening as this. And if it has really been as sickening and senseless as this why do I have to die, and die in agony? There's something wrong. Maybe I didn't live as I should have done?" came the sudden thought. "But how can that be when I did everything properly?" he wondered, instantly dismissing as a total impossibility the one and only solution to the mystery of life and death. — Leo Tolstoy

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education ... that's the thing that worries me. — Will.i.am

To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality, — Thich Nhat Hanh

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround — Henri Matisse