Sassierocks Quotes & Sayings

The queue for happiness was not well ordered, he thought; it stretched out and wound round corners, and sometimes, it seemed, the end was so hard to see. — Alexander McCall Smith

One can't have literary comprehension without real experience, mere grammatical knowledge of the words is useless without recognition of their values, and when you young people want to understand a country and its language you should start by seeing it at its most beautiful, in the strength of its youth, at its most passionate. You should begin by hearing the language in the mouths of the poets who create and perfect it, you must have felt poetry warm and alive in your hearts before we smart anatomizing it. — Stefan Zweig

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. — Colley Cibber

British officers arriving in India were supposed to spend up to three years in a Calcutta college, where they studied Hindu and Muslim law alongside English law; Sanskrit, Urdu and Persian alongside Greek and Latin; and Tamil, Bengali and Hindustani culture alongside mathematics, economics and geography. — Yuval Noah Harari

The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive. — Miyamoto Musashi

It may be that you still ought to thank God; why, for all you know he may be preserving you for something. Be of great heart, and fear less. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want. — Wes Craven

Grow with the flow — Timothy Leary