Swizznet Quotes & Sayings

In Aunt Boo's opinion, it was better to know how to avoid danger than to avoid dangerous places. — Sarah Strohmeyer

I looked along the aisle and saw her, and it was as if I saw her for the first time. Everything changed. The ancient featureless interior of me spangled orange, mint, cat-blue. I looked back to the window immediately, my face damp, my breath caught. And worried I would never have the courage to look at her again. — Sonya Hartnett

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men — John Steinbeck

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. — Spike Jonze

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations. — Richard E. Byrd

Just do this because it's the thing in front of you. — Kathleen Tolan

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas. — Harvey MacKay

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy. — Goldie Hawn

The word of wisdom is missing," he continued. "We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of spiritual penetration and interpretation, the ability to appraise the religious scene as viewed from God's position, and to tell us what is actually going on — A.W. Tozer

Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow. — Angelique Kidjo

It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To conclude is to shut up; and the man of science is not at all likely to shut up. — G.K. Chesterton

You're a "chibi", and nobody notices you." Halfway good-looking people, according to Ricki, blended into the crowd. They never left any kind of strong impression. They were bland and anonymous. Ugly people, on the other hand, with fleshy noses or thin lips, always attracted attention. — Naomi Hirahara