Skewl Quotes & Sayings

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind. — William J. Clinton

I'd much prefer my books to shoes ... In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel. — Nathan Englander

Van Houten was still staring at the ceiling beams. He took a drink. The glass was almost empty again. 'Lidewij, I can't do it. I can't. I can't.' He leveled his gaze to me. 'Nothing happens to the Dutch Tulip Man. He isn't a con man or not a con man; he's God. He's an obvious and unambiguous metaphorical representation of God, and asking what becomes of him if the intellectual equivalent of asking what becomes of the disembodied eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg in Gatsby. Do he and Anna's man get married? We are speaking of a novel, dear child, not some historical enterprise. — John Green

Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem. — John Green

The trees, the stones and the earth had taken him inside themselves, but in their shape it was possible still to discern something of the man he had once been. — Susanna Clarke

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup. — Ken Kesey

words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs, — Cath Crowley

I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles. — Jasmine Guinness

One will sooner or later discover they are the choreographer of this dance we call life. — Dawn Tevy

Of all the medicines
In the inner life,
A smile is by far
The best medecine. — Sri Chinmoy

Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all
being as well as not-being. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday. — Brigham Young