Sheryll Flickner Quotes & Sayings

from the end of John Shirley's Black Glass, something like: "the Singularity guys don't understand, they aren't copying us, our brains, just the noise we make — John Shirley

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. — Plautus

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. — Bob Goddard

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. — Alice Sebold

I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?

Have I told you his was a beautiful smile? Not the smile of a cynic, nor the easy, hungry smile of boys his age, whose smiles that aim to get them somewhere, are a commodity in exchange for God knows what. No. His was completely without intent; an accident of a smile. The kind of smile that would have surprised him if he could have seen it for himself. But he was too young to know his own extraordinariness. — Kate Walbert

When you shift your focus, you change your life. — Steve Rizzo

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted. — Robert Baden-Powell

We were both broken, trying to become unbroken. Maybe we just needed a little help. Not to fix each other, but to help us fix ourselves. — Chelsea M. Cameron

Redemption was an ugly, down-in-the-dirt, every single day sort of thing. — Mary Jane Hathaway

When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt - we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice. — Jostein Gaarder

For any printed lie that any notorious villain pens, although it militate directly against the character and conduct of a life, appeals at once to your distrust, and is believed. You will strain at a gnat in the way of trustfulness and confidence, however fairly won and well deserved; but you will swallow a whole caravan of camels, if they be laden with unworthy doubts and mean suspicions. — Charles Dickens

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies. — Dakota Fanning

Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue ... — John Piper

I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience. — Russell Simmons