Silkindian Quotes & Sayings

Every man makes many mistakes during his lifetime, but there's always one, a single decision, a sin of omission or commission, which towers above all others. An error, a diamond sparkling in the debris, that one can point at and know for eternity to be the fulcrum about which the remainder of one's life turned before spinning off to destruction. — Simon D. Reagan

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage. — John Lennon

I have never, not once, violated my public trust. — Alan Mollohan

As for the reaction of his colleagues - all those hoicked eyebrows - Wesley discovered he relished the prospect. Which led to an interesting insight into human nature, or at least the human nature of the academic: one liked to be perceived by one's students as Old School, but by one's peers as New School. I — Stephen King

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

By simply pondering what is good in your life every day, you will find that you're more productive, more relaxed, and more appreciative of your life regardless of what you are balancing at the time. — David Mezzapelle

There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach the observer from the observed. A great deal of scientific truth has later turned out to be its observer's fiction. It is irrational to assume that this is no longer the case. — Jeanette Winterson

Lie down there on the sofa and see if I can put you to sleep.
He took up his violin fom the corner, and as I stretched myself out he began to play some low, dreamy, melodious air - his own no doubt, for he had a remarkable gift for improvisation. I have a vague remembrance of his gaunt limbs, his earnest face and the rise and fall of his bow. Then I seemed to be floated peacefully away upon a soft sea of sound until I found myself in dreamland, with the sweet face of Mary Morstan looking down upon me. — Arthur Conan Doyle

We're making a list."
"And checking it twice." Edward shook his head. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy. — Bob Saget

Every crowd has a silver lining. — P.T. Barnum

He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom ... that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live. All his other gifts came to him from nature, this he won for himself and through it he became great. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky