Smartish Pace Quotes & Sayings

What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this. — Lesley Visser

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. — David Levithan

You need to put aside your own selfish motives and consider other people for a change. — Joe Schreiber

I like doing energetic things. — Jimmy Fallon

Peace of silence,
Petra Hermans
November 10, 2016 — Petra Hermans

Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path or a problem. To see something in constantly new ways is to renew and multiply it. That is why the contemplative person, without ever leaving his village, will nevertheless have the whole universe at his disposal. There's infinity in a cell or a desert. One can sleep cosmically against a rock. — Fernando Pessoa

I like that I can drive 15 hours from home without the world changing too much. — John Green

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four. — Thomas Malthus

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor. — Simon McBurney

While poor people mention having a lack of material things, they tend to describe their condition in far more psychological and social terms than our North American audiences. Poor people typically talk in terms of shame, inferiority, powerlessness, humiliation, fear, hopelessness, depression, social isolation, and voicelessness. North American audiences tend to emphasize a lack of material things such as food, money, clean water, medicine, housing, etc. — Steve Corbett

Irish grabbed her hand and kept the water directed at the wall. His voice cam across her radio. "Hannah. Wait. What do you see?"
She stared. She saw fire. A lot of fire.
But then a pattern started to emerge. "A message?" She guessed. Then she looked mroe closelt. "A star? What does that mean?"
"That's not a star," said Irish. "But it's definitely a message."
"It's not a star?"
He let go of the hose, the water streaked across the flames on the floor.
"No," he said. "That's a pentagram. — Brigid Kemmerer