Sooi Hoogstraten Quotes & Sayings

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. — Morrie Schwartz.

A book is the only immortality — Rufus Choate

Radu had practiced the poem so often he could recite it in his sleep. He had stolen shiny bits from famous Arabic poems, gathering them like a raven to line his own nest. The language was dense and flowery, hyperbolic in the extreme. Murad listened, enraptured, as his reign was likened to the ocean and his posterity a mighty river. — Kiersten White

I will miss our porch. I thought about that as I settled into one of its rockers, — Alessandra Torre

Reflexes depend on the speed with which your neurons fire impulses, as well as the speed with which your muscles respond to those impulses. — Maxwell Knight

we are never our own.
we must change this fact.

- acceptance — Nayyirah Waheed

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina. — Karen Kain

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account. — Simon Newcomb

Deep in our nature we are foragers, and life is a process of gathering the resources we need from a large connected planet. It's all out there
every color, shade, flavor and mutation of life and experience. Whatever we are looking for, we will find ... if it doesn't find us first. However, the result will not be what we're consciously looking for but what we're unconsciously seeking. And so, what we want, will never be anything like what we expect. It is the forager's law
you can find the berry bush, but you can't control its yield. — Neil Strauss

Maybe we should go back and get their guns," Marlon suggested. "That's how it would work in a video game," Csongor said, which was his way of agreeing. — Neal Stephenson

I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in. — La India

I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish. — Meg Cabot

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict. — Don Young