Sheinmans Quotes & Sayings

At the end of the street was a large glass box with a female mannequin inside it, dressed as a gypsy fortune teller.
"Now," said Wednesday, "at the start of any quest or enterprise it behooves us to consult the Norns."
He dropped a coin into the slot. With jagged, mechanical motions, the gypsy lifted her arm and lowered it once more. A slip of paper chunked out of the slot.
Wednesday took it, read it, grunted, folded it up and put it in his pocket.
"Aren't you going to show it to me? I'll show you mine," said Shadow.
"A man's fortune is his own affair," said Wednesday, stiffly. "I would not ask to see yours."
Shadow put his own coin into the slot. He took his slip of paper. He read it.
EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE.
YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD.
Motto:
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
Shadow made a face. He folded the fortune up and put it inside his pocket. — Neil Gaiman

What the world doesn't tell you - because it doesn't know - is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful. — Eckhart Tolle

I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. — Kim Jong Il

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black? — Ann Demeulemeester

I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement. — Maira Kalman

While seeing or hearing, touching or smelling; eating, moving about, or sleeping; breathing 9 or speaking, letting go or holding on, even opening or closing the eyes, they understand that these are only the movements of the senses among sense objects. 10 — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

The top has no limits. We can keep on climbing. That's what people do. No
That's what I do. — Ryohgo Narita

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the "real" everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human. — Susan Sontag

First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden is going to be OK. — Conan O'Brien

Oh, yes, that's right--my terms. I'm sorry, but you'll have to state clearly, for the record, in your own words, your clear-minded and sober intention to ride my dick. Actually, let me go get a witness, just to be on the safe side ... — Mercy Brown

IF only one's eyes weren't visible to others, she thinks. If only one could hide one's eyes from the world. — Han Kang

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words. — Brandon Lee

It's too easy to forget oneself, to take comfort in becoming part of the great amorphous mass of the thoughtless, the spineless, the soulless, as I would say. To go along with the wrong instead of standing up for what's right. To become nothing because so many are nothing and being nothing takes less effort than becoming something worthwhile. — Lynmar Brock Jr.

It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing? — Jonathan Safran Foer