Staviam Quotes & Sayings

If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you're a lot better off. — Bindi Irwin

What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world. — Norman Cousins

What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister?" "Something furtive," Aunt Alexandra said. "You may count on that." "Nobody has much chance to be furtive in Maycomb," Atticus answered. — Harper Lee

The physical evidence does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda. Physical evidence does not look away as events unfold nor does it blackout or add to memory. It remains constant and is a solid foundation upon which cases are built. — Robert P. McCulloch

In another landscape, a line of spruce in the distance would appear an inkblot, a punctuation to the endless grey sentence of the morning. — Kate Walbert

Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch. — Andy Rooney

Such colourless phrases as he achieved were produced with a difficulty, a hesitancy, simulated perhaps, but decidedly effective in their unconcealed ineptness. Like most successful men, he had turned this apparent disadvantage into a powerful weapon of offense and defense, in the way that the sledge-hammer impact of his comment left, by its banality, every other speaker at a standstill, giving him as a rule complete mastery of the conversational field. A vast capacity for imposing boredom, a sense of immensely powerful stuffiness, emanated from him, sapping every drop of vitality from weaker spirits.
"So you were at school together," he said slowly. — Anthony Powell

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly. — Meher Baba

I wouldn't change a thing. I want you. I'll always want you. — Siobhan Davis

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. — Jeff VanderMeer

This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That that's why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. There's another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way. — Jeanne Marie Laskas

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. — David Amram