Sphinxs Macaw Quotes & Sayings

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We don't know he's a shyster." "His name's Monte Carlo and he's from New Jersey. What else do we need to know? — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is because small girls and babysitters, who are usually slightly larger girls, belong to the same species, and therefore understand each other. Small boys, on the other hand, do not understand girls, and therefore being looked after by one is a little like a hamster being looked after by a shark. If you are a small boy, it may be some consolation to you to know that even large boys do not understand girls, and girls, by and large, do not understand boys. This makes adult life very interesting. — John Connolly

After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting. I reflect on the painting, the nuances of the artwork, it's theme, mood and highlights -until the magic of the painting flashes before me. — Srinidhi.R

the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns. — John Cornwell

I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends. — Frank A. Vanderlip

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it. — Bob Newhart

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. — Paul Watson

For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed. — Yves Behar

Astrology fell into the class of a fake lie ... and not worth the efforts of the debunking engine Cicero had been born with in place of a brain. Cicero's capacities were reserved for lies that mattered. Ideology, though that word was yet unknown to him: the veil of sustaining fiction that drove the world, what people needed to believe. This, Cicero wished to unmask and unmake, decry and destroy. (p. 65) — Jonathan Lethem

It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries. — Brandon Stanton

The only thing that continues is the consequences of our action. — Huston Smith

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. — James Anthony Froude

I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself. — Edgerrin James