Sidiki Quotes & Sayings

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. — Christopher Hitchens

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant. — Roald Amundsen

Lose thirty pounds within the next thirty days, or I'll have Chief Horrall put you on the 'Fat Husband's Diet' recently extolled in the Ladies' Home Journal. — James Ellroy

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. — Karen Joy Fowler

I understand now, Fluttering Bird! I must draw the cats close - together once more - so that we can grow strong and spread like the Blazing Star. — Erin Hunter

Here's something else I'd like your opinion about," I said. "If he went back underground and sat down again in the same spot, wouldn't the sudden transition from the sunlight mean that his eyes would be overwhelmed by darkness?"
"Certainly," he replied.
"Now, the process of adjustment would be quite long this time, and suppose that before his eyes had settled down and while he wasn't seeing well, he had once again to compete against those same old prisoners at identifying those shadows. Would he make a fool of himself? Wouldn't they say that he'd come back from his upward journey with his eyes ruined, and that it wasn't even worth trying to go up there? And would they
if they could
grab hold of anyone who tried to set them free and take them up there and kill him? — Plato

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four. — Barbara Kingsolver

It seems that all eukaryotic cells either have, or once had (and then lost) mitochondria. In other words, possession of mitochondria is a sine qua non of the eukaryotic condition — Nick Lane

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness. — Conrad Veidt

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia. — Mark Twain

The trick to a satisfying relationship is the same as the one for satisfying sex - thrust, hold, withdraw, pause. Repeat. Too fast or too much invariably spoils the fun. — Shuchi Singh Kalra

They love each other. You said loved. Love doesn't die just because one heart stops beating. When you love someone, you have the same heartbeat and it's still there, just not as strong. So no. There's no loved. Dad still loves her. — Jay McLean

You'll be just fine," he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both. — Suzanne Palmieri