Sichuanese Seattle Quotes & Sayings

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. — Rahul Dravid

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. — Frank Herbert

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life. — Charles Spurgeon

To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter
none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures. — Fulton J. Sheen

Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing. — Emma Donoghue

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV. — Damon Albarn

The only thing that will defeat me will be if you don't love me the way i love you — Joan Elliott Pickart

I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more of an opening of new doors than an actual transition. I enjoy all of those things, which is why they remain a part of my life. — Brian J. White

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God."
-Review of Ida Craddock's "Heavenly Bridegrooms — Aleister Crowley

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us. — Edmund Leach

Y'know when your dog drags its butt across the carpet leaving a stain- It's not as easy as it looks ... " — Josh Stern

Zorba sees everything everyday as if for the first time. — Nikos Kazantzakis

If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are. — Cassandra Clare

The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores, spitting them into their swift hands as they hammered up frame cottages and scuttled over roofs with shingles to blot out the eerie stars, and fit green shades to pull against the night. — Ray Bradbury