Skoglind Quotes & Sayings

People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term. — Clayton Christensen

Sturdiness, wariness, fatigue, but also an energy or glow
something like the center of a low flame, Is this what they call charisma? I do not know, exactly, except to say that Warm was more THERE than the average man. — Patrick DeWitt

When I became a mother, I put on the mom jeans and developed mom genes. — Kristen Welch

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths. — John Piper

Jamie chose that moment to almost fall down the stairs. Mae took his whole weight and grabbed the banister. Seb reached out but Jamie shied away, and Nick gave Jamie a push in the chest that was clearly intended to right him, but that nearly had him toppling over backward. Balance eventually restored to them all, Jamie gave Nick an approving look. "You are my friend," he told him. "Yeah, I am," said Nick. "But these stairs," Jamie said sadly. "They are not my friends. — Sarah Rees Brennan

It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn't know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me. — Rich Burlew

A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts. — John Zachary Young

My way probably wont work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt. — Rihanna

The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see. — George R R Martin

For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance. — Franz Kafka

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon. — Christopher Isherwood

A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant! — Tom Stoppard