Sprankles Quotes & Sayings

Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president. — Joy Behar

Most people don't question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don't translate into changes of behavior. — Brian Greene

No risk is more terrifying than that taken by the first root. A lucky root will eventually find water, but its first job is to anchor -- to anchor an embryo and forever end its mobile phase, however passive that mobility was. Once the first root is extended, the plant will never again enjoy any hope (however feeble) of relocating to a place less cold, less dry, less dangerous. Indeed, it will face frost, drought, and greedy jaws without any possibility of flight. The tiny rootlet has only once chance to guess what the future years, decades -- even centuries -- will bring to the patch of soil where it sits. It assesses the light and humidity of the moment, refers to its programming, and quite literally takes the plunge. — Hope Jahren

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. — Ian McDiarmid

No need to feel shame for what you are. — Deyth Banger

Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71 — Kahlil Gibran

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things. — Richard Chenevix Trench