Snowblind Computer Quotes & Sayings

We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested.
The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid.
And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us. — Daniel Abraham

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere. — Alain Prost

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling. — Dermot Mulroney

Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent, said the old man, sternly. — Douglas Adams

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about. — Fernand Point

The ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes — T. S. Eliot

Dress how you want to be addressed. — Bianca Frazier

That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain. — Susanna Kaysen

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find. — Jeanette Winterson

I'd like to have enough time and quiet
To think about absolutely nothing,
To not ever feel myself living,
To only know myself in others' eyes, reflected. — Al Berto

What I really want to say is who the hell are you and who are you to decide who gets to die. Who are you to decide who should be killed. Who are you tell me which father I should destroy and which child I should orphan and which mother should be left without her son, which brother should be left without a sister, which grandmother should spend the rest of her life crying in the early hours of the morning because they body of her grandchild was buried in the ground before her own. — Tahereh Mafi

We're meant to stay connected to our hearts, you see. Feeling our feelings, present in the moments we're given. But we don't do that. And that's when we get in trouble ...
We mature and take responsibility for ourselves and others, and that's a good thing. But we're never meant to lose that alive quality, to get cut off from our true hearts. Growing up isn't the same thing as shutting down ...
We can fight it. We have to fight it. Because when our hearts shut down, we become mere shells of who we once were. We don't laugh - not honestly, not from the heart. We don't dream. We don't feel our feelings or use our gifts. We end up trying to just survive instead of live. It's like we've handed our hearts over to the enemy of our souls and said, 'Here you can have it. I'm giving up. — Denise Hildreth Jones

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years. — Christian McBride

No matter how outlandishly audacious your prayers might sound in your own ears, they are nothing in light of God's willingness and ability to answer. — Leslie Ludy