Sedigitizing Quotes & Sayings

Suddenly he remembered Josh sitting on the motorbike and chatting with the bikers outside the pub - and he felt a throb of jealousy. It wasn't that he harbored any desire to sit on a motorbike, but ... he wanted to be allowed to want to sit on a motorbike. — Frances Hardinge

Only the autodidacts are free. And not just in school matters - those who decommoditize, detouristify their lives. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done. — Rahm Emanuel

He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at him, he felt maternal disapproval crashing down upon his shoulders, as if he'd been a naughty boy. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that. — David Byrne

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. — Roger L'Estrange

The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. — Theodore Roosevelt

What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart — William Shakespeare

I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity. — Ken Kutaragi

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. — Elton John

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman. — Jean Giraudoux

It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation. — Tamora Pierce

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up. — E. Haldeman-Julius

Only the curious have something to find. — Nickel Creek

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character. — Willem Dafoe