Spitzley Street Quotes & Sayings

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred. — Richard Francis Burton

I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked. — Rabih Alameddine

I hope I'm not turning into that girl, the one who daydreams about a guy she can never have. — Kasie West

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things. — Courtney Barnett

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson

Conscience is the pulse of reason — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every wave in an ocean has a secret to tell you; life is a wave of love so let it flow over you endlessly. — Debasish Mridha

That's not the one you were thinking of?"
"No." There was accusation in her voice. "Mine was different, — Lorrie Moore

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air. — Chogyam Trungpa