Scump Stream Quotes & Sayings

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it. — Fernando Pessoa

The egotism of woman is always for two. — Madame De Stael

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it. — Ivan Turgenev

The stories he told became boring to me through repetition, but I understand now that he was just trying to fix that place with the compass of his memories. Throughout — Jeff VanderMeer

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart. — Bruce Springsteen

Infinity means it is permeating all the finite things, — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build the cosmos. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I don't do pity kisses," she says. "I don't do pity anything. Pity is patronizing. Pity is an assumption of superiority."
"That sounds like your dad."
"It is my dad, but he's right. He says kindness is better. Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle. — Patrick Ness

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. — Roger L'Estrange

She points to where he went and looks to the neutral Baumen. "He - he did that to me on purpose! He's insane. Literally, insane!"
The munchkin just shrugs. "Welcome aboard!" and returns unconcerned to his work. — Nathan Reese Maher

The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health. — Swami Vivekananda

The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots. — Jennifer Egan

I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything. — Laurie Halse Anderson