Swirling Birds Quotes & Sayings

Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?'
This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things. — Dennis Crowley

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture. — Mark Leyner

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail. — Blaise Pascal

the large black birds swirling and dispersing over — Joan London

Don't follow your mentors; follow your mentors' mentors. — David Leach

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed. — Paul A. Volcker

When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement. — Katy B

A stone image shed a miraculous tear of compassion over the incertitudes of life and death ... — Joseph Conrad

I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me. — Ziggy Marley

Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface. — Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. — Method Man

She was stone cold and hard as fuck. And that's when I knew, she was a ride or die chick. The Letty to my Dom. I — A. Zavarelli

Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self. — Ryan Lilly