Sismographe Quotes & Sayings

It's very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you'll think they're right for a role. There's an essence to a person. — James Gray

I'm just saying, Ave, you might dress in jeans and a T-shirt and never wear your hair down and talk about how you're a football-loving tomboy, but you're also very much an attractive woman, and any man would be blind not to see it, and maybe that's a weird thing for one friend to say to another, and now I think I might be rambling because I'm embarrassed that I said it. But whatever. It's the truth. — Melissa Tagg

I'm not good with speeding," said Shirley, sounding more than a little anxious. "The speed limits are there for a reason. Cars aren't meant to go fast. — Jeff Strand

A lily does not lose its beauty because it blooms in muddy waters. — Matshona Dhliwayo

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments. — Aldous Huxley

Because wanton or venal lips has murmured the same words to him, he only half believed in the sincerity of those he was hearing now; to a large extent they should be disregarded, he believed, because such exaggerated language must surely mask commonplace feelings: as if the soul in its fullness did not sometimes overflow into the most barren metaphors, since no one can ever tell the precise measures of his own needs, of his own ideas, of his own pain, and human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when what we long to do is make music that will move the stars to pity. — Gustave Flaubert

How stupid of me not to have thought of it! T. H. Huxley cried upon reading On the Origin of Species. It is a view that has been echoed ever since. Interestingly, — Bill Bryson

If you are a student, try to be a teacher; if you are a teacher, try to be a student! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality. — Michelle Yeoh

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime. — Troy Polamalu